And an editor should not be used on log files? Frequently, frequently I am in the position that I need to manipulate an overly-verbose log file to condense out

And an editor should not be used on log files? Frequently, frequently I am in the position that I need to manipulate an overly-verbose log file to condense out the information I want. I could spend a half hour concocting wizard-like shell invocations, OR I could do it interactively in five minutes with vi...