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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell script to search content of file with timestamps in the directory Post 302187305 by era on Sunday 20th of April 2008 04:18:40 PM
Old 04-20-2008
What's the syntax error? And why did you add the "read vardate" stuff? You're supposed to pass in the date on the command line. Of course, you can change that, but then you need to modify the rest of the script accordingly.

When passing a value with spaces in it, you need to use quotes:

Code:
grep "Tues Feb 8" traffic/127.0.0.1

Here's another try at a script:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

case $# in 0) echo syntax: $0 files ...; exit 2;; esac

echo enter date:
read date

grep "$date" "$@"

The script will be more useful for use from other scripts if you let it accept the date on the command line rather than read it interactively, but that may not be an issue here. Anyway, you need to pass it the file(s) to search as arguments anyway, so why not make the date a command-line argument, too (or else ask which files to grep, interactively).
 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

zgrep

ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep  options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

                                                                                                                                          ZGREP(1)
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