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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell script to search content of file with timestamps in the directory Post 302187239 by era on Sunday 20th of April 2008 12:43:59 PM
Old 04-20-2008
I recently responded to a similar question of yours here: https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...#post302187223

Code:
#!/bin/sh

case $# in 0|1) echo "syntax: $0 date files ..." >&2; exit 2;; esac

date=$1
shift

awk -v d="$date" '$0 ~ d' "$@"

This expects the date as the first parameter, and a list of files as the remaining parameters. Those are passed through to awk in "$@" after the first argument (the date) has been shifted off and passed to the awk script as a variable.

I took out the { print } because that is the default action; this is probably less readable, so if you don't use awk much, it might be safer to leave it in.

Of course, this simple script is exactly equivalent to grep without any options or other bells & whistles.
Last edited by era; 04-20-2008 at 01:45 PM.. Reason: Fix case statement to accept more than one file, duh
 

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NAME

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SYNTAX

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DESCRIPTION

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