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Old 02-22-2013
Cut particular lines

All,

I would like to cut all the lines from the log file for the timestamp . I'm not clear about how to apply grep ,awk here.Can you help me on this ?

My logfile:
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Code:
Wed Feb 20 03:48:26 2013
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 400 (LGWR switch)
Thu Feb 21 02:34:23 2013
Starting background process CJQ0
Thu Feb 21 02:34:23 2013
CJQ0 started with pid=14, OS id=29548
Thu Feb 21 03:00:00 2013
Fri Feb 22 03:00:04 2013
Begin automatic SQL Tuning Advisor run for special tuning task  "SYS_AUTO_SQL_TUNING_TASK"

My output should be: - I need Feb21 content here.
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Code:
Thu Feb 21 02:34:23 2013
Starting background process CJQ0
Thu Feb 21 02:34:23 2013
CJQ0 started with pid=14, OS id=29548
Thu Feb 21 03:00:00 2013

Thanks
Arul

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Mod Comment edit by bakunin: when we told you in the rules and in the form with which you opened the thread to use CODE-tags we really meant it. Please do so from now on. It can't be that hard to find the button labeled "CODE", no?

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Old 02-22-2013
Please use code tags as required by forum rules.

Your request is not that easy to fulfill as the file structure (time stamp \n line) is not consistenely followed, so further evaluations need to be applied. For a start, try
Code:
awk 'match($0, dt) {print; getline; print}' dt="Feb 21" file

 
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