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06-25-2009

Sepia

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Originally Posted by vgersh99

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Code:

grep "monkey" zoo.log | tail -1 | sed "s/^/$(date)/" >> cron-zoo-log

Excellent.

That is putting the date before the grep result - is there a way to switch it around and maybe separate them by a comma?