filter log file by defining regexes

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Published on 2010-03-17T17:26:09Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 17:31 UTC
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I have some HUGE log files (50Mb; ~500K lines) I need to start filtering some of the crap out of. The log files are being produced using log4j and have the basic pattern of:

[log-level] date-time class etc, etc  
log-message  

I'm looking for a way that I can identify a regex start and regex end (or something similar) that will filter out the matching entries from the file so I can more easily wade through these massive files. I'm sure I could write a java program to accomplish this task, but I thought I'd ask the community before going down that path. Thanks in advance.

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