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Extract Errors for the Incident Report

During an incident you hand the on-call engineer a filtered log, not a gigabyte file. Extract every ERROR line from yesterday's app log into a dedicated file.

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01Requirements

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  • File ~/report/errors.log exists○
  • It contains only ERROR lines from the 2026-09-27 application log○

02Walkthrough

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    Create the report directory

    The report will live in ~/report — every lab starts from a fresh shell, so make it first.

    mkdir ~/report
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