Shell Programming and Scripting

This works great. Thank you all so much for your help.

6) echo "enter your search criteria here"
read var_1;
cd /home/demo/current_release/logs/current
grep -i "$var_1" *.log|sort -u |more
;;

Sorry, I have one more urgent request. My manager has asked me how to add a time variable. In other words, the user of the script must be able to choose a time, say 10-01-09 to 10-03-09. Can you please help me? He's asked for it by Close of business today. I'm thinking, why can I just use the line above,


6) echo "enter your search criteria here"
read var_1;
cd /home/demo/current_release/logs/current
grep -i "$var_1" *.log|sort -u |more
;;
MAYBE

7)echo "enter your time criteria here"
read var_2;
cd /home/demo/current_release/logs/current
grep -i "$var_1" *.log|grep -i "$var_2"|sort -u |more

Would that work do you think?

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Last thing I'd like to mention is the date format of the log files are odd. It's like
demo-name.2009_320_123456.999.log The key thing here is 2009_320 where its year 2009 and the 320th day of the year. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I got the date column to work, but now I've been asked to add the option to change the path? Anyone know how to do that in an option? Thanks.