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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting List/Range Todays Log. Post 302427746 by Scrutinizer on Monday 7th of June 2010 05:38:32 PM
Old 06-07-2010
Hi anand,

Do you mean something like this:
Code:
gdate=$(date '+%b %e' | awk '{printf "%s %2s\n",$1,$2}')

or
Code:
gdate=$(printf  "%s %2s\n" $(date '+%b %e'))

Which will put today's date in the variable $gdate, so the has the right format to grep /var/log/messages with
 

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