AWK help needed

Hi ,

I am new to AWK. I need to write a program which will search my logfiles for the given string and let me know the count and whether that is exeisting in that or not.

eg: serch key word is "java.lang.NullPointer".

How could i do that. I want to give list of exception names and search.

If code is given that will be a great help.

Thanks in advance,
Ashok

try grep for this

grep -c
grep -n

see manual pages

I wanted to use AWK and try to generate a report kind of stuff....

the Q was



next time post a precise request.
i will not give awk lessons on line, try something like
/matchstring/{ do something; }

the awk programming language by aho, kernighan, weinberger
by addison wesley ISBN 0-201-07981-X (my version: 1988) is a great book.

NOTA: on large files,i would NOT use awk, read awk's man pages
to understand why.