To view logs and search for any pattern, less would be great tool to use.
If logs are archived using pid or date (refer post http://lynuxkid.blogspot.com/2010/10/to-run-process-at-background-and.html for more info)
use "ls -ltr *pattern*" to get latest logs (if many instances logs are in same directory)
$ ls -ltr *PQA1logs*
-rw-r--r-- 1 wlsadmin atg 16455232 Sep 28 17:15 PQA1logs.txt.4728104734
-rw-r--r-- 1 wlsadmin atg 17439042 Sep 29 08:44 PQA1logs.txt.1628171655
-rw-r--r-- 1 wlsadmin atg 20182090 Sep 29 16:31 PQA1logs.txt.4629084624
-rw-r--r-- 1 wlsadmin atg 26107020 Oct 1 15:04 PQA1logs.txt.3329163306
-rw-r--r-- 1 wlsadmin atg 41899784 Oct 6 13:31 PQA1logs.txt.1501171516
then use less -i (i is to ignore case while searching)
$ less -i PQA1logs.txt.1501171516
Keybindings for less will be similar to Vi (refer post http://lynuxkid.blogspot.com/2010/10/vi-commands.html for Vi commands)
Traversing file
G - To go to end of the file
g - to go to start of the file
j - down one line
k - up one line
space - go forward one page
b - go back one page
F - to refresh page to get latest logs (similar to tail)
Ctrl+c to cancel any running operation for example - to cancel refresh of page.
:100 jump to 100th line
Forward search
/pattern - to search for pattern
n - to search next match
N - to search previous match
Backward search
?pattern - to search for pattern
n - to search previous match
N - to search next match
For more info
h - Summary of less commands.
For gunzip files with .gz - use gzless with above options.
Use gzgrep to grep in .gz file.
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