in reply to RegEx Question!

It will all depend on the data (whether or not to discard what you don't want or keep what you want), but you can use this as a basis for a "keep it" script:
perl -lne 'print if /stuff_I_want/' log > log.new

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Re^2: RegEx Question!
by omegaweaponZ (Beadle) on Jun 18, 2013 at 20:25 UTC
    Absolutely -lne is the right way to go about this, we can even add an or options for additional parameters to check for. Thank you
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