Hello RudiC,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply. I tried the following:

Code:

awk "/$STOPMARK/,0 {if ($1 ~ /qh1adm/) print}" logfile

$STOPMARK has 20130709213321

Thanks.

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Hello RudiC,

Code:

 
awk -v SM=$STOPMARK '/qh1adm/ && $2 >= SM' logfile

worked.

Thanks again.

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Hello Yoda,

The above command works perfectly! Thank you very much for your help.

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Hello RudiC, Hello Yoda,

Now I am getting the desired output:

Code:

 
qh1adm 20130711151154 : tp import all QH1 u6 -Dsourcesystems=BFI,EBJ
qh1adm 20130711151155 : tp import all QH1 u6 -Dsourcesystems=E7B,B17
qh1adm 20130711151200 : tp import all QH1 u6 -Dsourcesystems=BFI,EBJ

I was just wondering how to assign this output to an array. The reason is I want to count how many records are returned. Thanks a lot for your help.