Hello again,

I have read before the XY Problem and this is the reason that I tried to go even into further details on my previous reply.

But let me try again. I am login into a servers through a client script that has an application that produces this kind of log files.

No I can not change the log file output, no I am not processing the stdout in real time. I am collecting the log files for further processing in the background, in order to detect miss matched errors.

It would help me personally a lot to match entities from the log files through a script. I can do the whole process manually using "less and /keyword search" through the file as I am currently doing. But it would be much faster and easier for me to simply write a script to automate the process instead of doing it manually.

I can not use a database on the system.

I do not know if this helps but this is the reason that I am doing it.

Hope this helps, as a higher level reply instead of a low level. :D

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In reply to Re^4: Parsing log file with regular-expression match nested brackets by thanos1983
in thread Parsing log file with regular-expression match nested brackets [RESOLVED] by thanos1983

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