Regular Expression Trouble

[Peter Boosten]

Paul Chvostek wrote:

>> 	This is an attempt to isolate every MAC address that
>> appears and then sort and count them to see who is having
>> trouble or, in some cases, is causing trouble.
> 
> Then you still may want to use awk for some of that...
> 
> 	cat /var/log/dhcpd.log | \
> 	sed -nE 's/.*([0-9a-f]{2}(:[0-9a-f]{2}){5}).*/\1/p' | \
> 	awk '
> 	 { a[$1]++; }
> 	 END {
> 	  for(i in a){
> 	   printf("%7.0f\t%s\n", a[i], i);
> 	  }
> 	 }
> 	' | sort -nr
> 

Euhmm:

sed -nE 's/.*([0-9a-f]{2}(:[0-9a-f]{2}){5}).*/\1/p' /var/log/dhcpd.log|\
sort | uniq -c

:-)
Peter

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