On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:26 AM, frankhunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm writing a script to pull some stuff out of /var/log/messages by > date. I am having problems finding any entries with a single digit date > because the messages file dates look like this: > Mmm<space><space>d for single digit dates. The output of > YESTERDAY=`date --date='yesterday'|cut -c 5-10`; echo $YESTERDAY gives > me Mmm<space>d for single digit dates. Therein lies the problem - grep > is looking for Nov 3 with one leading space while the messages file has > Nov 3 with two leading spaces. Gotta be a way to do this, I'm just not > smart enough to figure it out. Pretty sure most of you guys are . . . > > -- > frank hunt > (L0F) R0B-ZAR1 > befuddled linux admin > erstwhile photographer > hillsboro oregon > > first dirty hack to spring to mind: pipe through sed "s/ / /" -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
