Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

First of all sincere apologies if I have posted in a wrong section ! Please correct me if I am wrong !

I am very new to UNIX scripting.

Currently my problem is that I have a code file at the location /home/usr/workarea/GeneratedLogs.log :-

Code :-

Code:

(Feb 7, 571 7:07:29 AM), Setup
(Feb 7, 571 7:07:29 AM), Setup
(Feb 7, 571 7:07:29 AM), Setup
(Feb 7, 571 7:07:29 AM), Setup
(Feb 7, 571 7:07:29 AM), Setup
(Feb 8, 003 11:23:03 PM), Setup
(Feb 8, 003 11:23:03 PM), Setup
(Feb 8, 003 11:23:03 PM), Setup
(Feb 8, 003 11:23:03 PM), Setup
(Feb 9, 861 11:39:11 PM), Setup
(Feb 9, 861 11:39:11 PM), Setup
(Feb 9, 861 11:39:11 PM), Setup

Now I want to cut the contents from this file based on date i.e. I am expecting the below code in a new file at the location /home/usr/workarea/LogCopy.log

Code :-

Code:

(Feb 7, 571 7:07:29 AM), Setup
(Feb 7, 571 7:07:29 AM), Setup
(Feb 7, 571 7:07:29 AM), Setup
(Feb 7, 571 7:07:29 AM), Setup
(Feb 7, 571 7:07:29 AM), Setup

I tried with the following script :-

Code:

 find /home/usr/workarea/GeneratedLogs.log -mtime +0 -exec cp {} /home/usr/workarea/LogCopy.log \;

But this script just created a new file and copied the contents from the parent file to the new created file and deleted the parent file !

I even tried the cut command also :-

Code:

find /home/usr/workarea/GeneratedLogs.log -mtime +0 -exec cut -d: -f1,100 /home/usr/workarea/LogCopy.log \;

But this command is not working and I am not sure what is wrong with it !!!!


My requirement is to cut the contents from the parent file and paste it into a new file which will be created during runtime and the new created should also carry the timestamp !


Could anyone mind to help me in this regard !

Thanks in advance !