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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grepping Date Variable Post 302424596 by ravzter on Tuesday 25th of May 2010 09:34:56 PM
Old 05-25-2010
Thanks Bakunin!

I'm getting the following error message:

HTML Code:
line 4: read: `Enter date: MM-DD-YYYY?vdate': not a valid identifier
I've also tried switching the "?" inside the quotes, and just a minor change at the end of the output log, and I get the same result.

I'll try to debug a bit more.

HTML Code:
#!/bin/bash
typeset vdate=$(date '+%m-%d-%Y')
read "Enter date: MM-DD-YYYY"?vdate
awk -F, '/'"$vdate"'/ {print $1, $2}' /log/log.csv > log_mm_dd_$vdate
Last edited by ravzter; 05-25-2010 at 10:45 PM..
 

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torrus_genreport

TORRUS_GENREPORT(8)						      torrus						       TORRUS_GENREPORT(8)

NAME

       genreport - Generate the Usage Report

SYNOPSIS

       torrus genreport --report=ReportName --date=YYYY-MM-DD [options...]  torrus genreport --genhtml [options...]

DESCRIPTION

       When the Torrus Reporting engine is set up, this command is used to generate the reports from the collected data.  See Torrus Reporting
       Setup Guide for more information.

OPTIONS

       --report=ReportName
	   The name of the report that is to be generated. Currently supported: "MonthlyUsage".

       --date=YYYY-MM-DD
	   Specifies the start date of the reported period. For the monthly report, this should be any day within the calendar month.

       --time=hh:mm
	   Specifies the start time of the reported period. This option is ignored for the monthly reports.

       --genhtml
	   Instructs the report engine to build the HTML output from the generated reports.

       --tree=TREE
	   When used with "--genhtml", generates the HTML reports only for the specified tree.

       --all2tree=TREE
	   When used with "--genhtml", generates the HTML reports only for all available service IDs in the specified tree.

       --verbose
	   Prints extra informatgion.

       --debug
	   Prints debugging information.

SEE ALSO

       torrus(8)

NOTES

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AUTHOR

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