On Fri, 16 May 2014, gregrwm wrote: > On 10 May 2014 13:55, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > >> ...no way to specify shortest match for s*s*g afaik. anyway a better >> pattern is *(messages|syslog) >> > > On 16 May 2014 10:08, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > >> ...It's hard to say what you are shooting for here. >> > > sorry for not being more clear, my post above was meant as "SOLVED", albeit > i would be glad to learn a way to specify shortest match. I really only do this to learn things. If I can solve a problem, that's good too, but the bigger problem I want to solve is that I don't know what I'm doing. ;-) Mike