Newbie has a grep problem

[kalymist]

Hey forum,
I have a question which is driving me crazy,
I have a Apache web log file and I am trying to extract a string of text out of it . This is the piece of text i have copied from the log.

I am trying to extract from ?hl to "; and print out the entries to a file

/search?hl=en&q=frequently+used+unix+aliases&btnG=Google+Sea rch"; "Mozilla/4.0

Should i be using a grep command to do this?

Here is what I had been trying
grep '\<?hl+eta\>' logs.txt


any help is really great

Many thanks

Kaly

[Irithori]

Is this what you want?

egrep -o '\?hl.*\";' logs.txt

On a related note, apachegrep might be of interest also:
apachegrep
Manpage of apachegrep

[kalymist]

Thanks a million Irithori, much appreciated it worked.