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# 1  
Old 08-30-2006
Remove content from file

hey all, I have a file with records in following format

8-29-2006 13:01:45|ABC|45
8-29-2006 14:23:12|DEF|21
8-30-2006 00:04:57|ABC|34

I want to remove all yesterday records. Can anyone show me how? Thanks!
# 2  
Old 08-30-2006
Do you mean you want to keep the today's record and removed all the past record ??
or you want to remove only the yester day record keeping all prior record and today's record intact.?
# 3  
Old 08-30-2006
Perl solution:
Code:
perl -i.old -ne 'print unless /^8-29/' file

# 4  
Old 08-30-2006
This is supposed to be a daily job, so if I am doing the right job from the beginning then all I need to do should be removing yesterday record. But I guess only keeping today's record and removed all the past reocrds should do as well. Thanks
# 5  
Old 08-30-2006
what my approach is

today=`date '+%m-%d-Y'`
grep -v "$today" file_name >file_name

Last edited by jambesh; 08-31-2006 at 05:27 AM.. Reason: update
# 6  
Old 08-31-2006
the problem is I can only modify the file, writing the entries to another file is not an option. Can anyone help?
# 7  
Old 08-31-2006
you can do that if you redirect the out put to the same file , but here you will lose the original file information , i mean the same file will contain the todays log only previous log will be removed .
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