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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Preserve space in variable of AWK Post 302492798 by vgersh99 on Tuesday 1st of February 2011 01:21:20 PM
Old 02-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jotne
That is what i do use, if you look at first code.
Script do work fine for all January (two digit date), and stopped 1 February. I did make it some weeks ago.

Log file is growing with several lines every minutes, so I know data is there, but can not get any data for February. (gives no output)
Ubuntu 10.10
You cannot compare 'dates' in the form of: Feb 1 18:00:11 - regardless of the extra space. You're comparing strings, which makes no sense.
You need to convert both values ($0 and to/from) to integers and compare integer values:
Code:
date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S

 

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