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.\" Manpage begin.
.\" Contact mik@elnord.in to correct errors or typos.
.TH man 1 "19 November 2014" "1.1" "begin man page"
.SH NAME
begin \- an output modifier
.SH SYNOPSIS
begin [-j|z|h|?] PATTERN [FILE]
.SH DESCRIPTION
begin is an outputmodifer. It works by searching a file (or std in) for a user supplied pattern and then outputs all lines starting from the first line that matches the pattern. A pattern is a simple textstring or a regular expression as defined by Boost xpressive header only library. Check out http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/doc/html/xpressive/user_s_guide.html for more information on how to build your regular expression.
.SH OPTIONS
-h|? Show usage
-j Decompress FILE using bz2
-z Decompress FILE using gz
.SH EXAMPLE USAGE
begin "Jan 2[6-7]" /var/log/daemon.log
begin -j "Jan 2[6-7]" /var/log/daemon.log.bz2
begin -z "Jan 2[6-7]" /var/log/daemon.log.gz
cat /var/log/daemon.log | begin "Jan 2[6-7]"
.SH SEE ALSO
grep(1)
.SH BUGS
No known bugs.
.SH AUTHOR
Mikael Nordin (mik@elnord.in)