Originally Posted by nybbles2bytes

I didn't realize that you responded, thanks! ...for whatever reason I didn't get the email.

I did something very similar to you because as you surmised it was slow with the shell calls. So, I did get rid of the date like you, well, not in the begin statement but in the loop where it matters.

However, I ended up with a shell call in the loop anyway because one more criteria came to light which I had to find lines from another file and I couldn't find awk functions to process a 2nd file. I suspect this is the point where it would be smart to go to something more comprehensive such as PERL or in my case probably PHP.

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Code:

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#!/bin/awk -f

BEGIN{
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        # $11 = file with path that is being rewritten to another directory
        fn = $11;
        gsub(/[']/, "", fn);
              "grep \""fn"\" /var/log/httpd/access_log"|getline access_log;
        close("grep \""fn"\" /var/log/httpd/access_log");
        print $4, $5, $10, $11, $12, $13, "\nLines from access_log with the file:", fn, "\n", access_log, "\n";
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}