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Old 05-09-2008
amatuer_lee_3 amatuer_lee_3 is offline
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trying to cope with awk difficulties

Quote:
echo "Enter month: "

read MONTH

awk '$3=="$MONTH" {print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6}' *.hits

The data we are searching is populated in this way:

----IP---------DAY----MONTH----DATE--------TIME---------YEAR
12.3234.34-----Fri------Nov-------15-------18:05:14 GMT---2008

I want the user to be able to search for the data according to month and year.
However, I cannot quite figure out how to do this. Above is the code i have and i can't understand what is wrong?

If we try and put in the variable e.g Nov, it wont give us any results.

It works only if instead of "$MONTH" we enter the month itself e.g Nov or Sep.

Last edited by amatuer_lee_3; 05-09-2008 at 05:11 AM.
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