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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grepping a timestamp range and assigning it to a constant Post 302994562 by Corona688 on Friday 24th of March 2017 12:40:12 PM
Old 03-24-2017
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Originally Posted by dsid
@Corona688 i have not used much awk so don't know a lot about it, just here n there. I might give it a look now that you have suggested, but just that sed was something that came into mind as I needed a search and replace.
sed doesn't really have comparisons, variables, expressions, or even numbers... It doesn't have anything you're asking it to do. You'd have to tell sed how to comprehend numbers in the form of many big and ugly regular expressions like /0[0-2]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]/ one per range.

Or you can just use awk, which actually has numbers, variables, expressions, and comparisons, and use these numbers, variables, expressions, and comparisons to solve it in one operation instead of 8 plus further processing.

If the number of lines is intimidating, I bet I can simplify it further given certain assumptions, like column 1 never containing the : character.

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