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Hi RudiC,

Embarrassingly, the problem turned out to be nothing to do with the code! The issue was that I was using the wrong file! :o

Still, confirmation that the Grep was OK helped cause it...

Sorry - I thought it was ok on the reply. Here's the code again..
EXTRACT_Date=$(date --date="${PERIOD}" +"%a %b %_d")
more "${CHK_FILE}" | grep -F "${EXTRACT_Date}" > ${SRC_FILE}
echo "grep -F...

Hi RudiC,

Sorry, I missed the bit about code tags. :o


Anyway, the data has 2 spaces "Oct..1" which is why I used the %_d. When I echo the grep command, it shows only once space but the echo...

Hi guys,

Hope someone can help me with this - I'm sure it's fairly simple but it's driving me mad! (forgive the coding - still new on scripting - come from Windows)

I have the following coding...