Provided by: exim4-base_4.90.1-1ubuntu1.10_amd64 
NAME
EXIGREP - Search Exim's main log
SYNOPSIS
exigrep [-l] pattern [log file] ...
DESCRIPTION
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.
BUGS
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.
SEE ALSO
exim(8), perlre(1), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/
AUTHOR
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)