EXIGREP - Search Exim's main log

       This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                                 March 26, 2003                                       EXIGREP(8)

       This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in
       writing manual pages, any patches would be greatly appreciated.

       The  exigrep  utility  is a Perl script that searches one or more main log files for entries that match a
       given pattern.  When it finds a match, it extracts all the log entries for the relevant message, not just
       those that match the pattern.  Thus, exigrep can extract complete log entries for a given message, or all
       mail for a given user, or for a given host, for example.

       The -l flag means ‘literal’, that is, treat all characters in the pattern  as  standing  for  themselves.
       Otherwise  the  pattern must be a Perl regular expression.  The pattern match is case-insensitive.  If no
       file names are given on the command line, the standard input is read.

       If the location of a zcat command is known from the definition of ZCAT_COMMAND in Local/Makefile, exigrep
       automatically passes any file whose name ends in COMPRESS_SUFFIX through zcat as it searches it.

       EXIGREP - Search Exim's main log

exim(8), perlre(1), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/

exigrep[-l]pattern[logfile]...