in reply to Re: Extracting Pattern Match from log
in thread Extracting Pattern Match from log

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new nominee for the Useless Use of Cat Award ! ;)

This would do exactly the same, yet without abusing cat:

perl -n -e 'print $1, $/ if /450 <([^>]*)>/' /var/log/mail/info
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b10m

All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.