Can't grep the system log, please help me.

The error messages.
grep: Maximum line length of 2048 exceeded.

Thanks

Are you sure you're grepping the log file, and not a binary file?  I've
never seen log messages that long before (in fact, I think syslog() or
syslogd automatically splits long messages into multiple lines).

If you really do need to grep a file with ultra-long lines, try using
GNU grep.  I doubt it has any limit on the line length.

--
Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

And as a quick and dirty thing, if you don't have GNU grep installed
and still want to grep something with long lines, you can always
use Perl.

"grep pattern filename" becomes "perl -ne 'print if /pattern/' filename".

   - Logan

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