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Old 02-10-2010
grep - date & time range
Hi,

I need to search email files by date & time range in email files.
The timezone is not important.

Can someone plz advise how i can do this ?

For e.g A user can specify only
[1] A single date
[2] A date range
[3] date & time range

Below is part of the email file.


Quote:
Received: from smtp.eds.mu (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by smtp.eds.mu (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4E8B49683A7
for <xxxx@xxxx>; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:41:28 +0400 (MUT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:41:28 +0400
From: xxxxxx <xxx.xxx@xxx.mu>
To: xxxxx <xxx@xxx.mu>
Subject: Some Subject
# 2  
Old 02-10-2010
Basically you need to convert the date to Julian Days for a date range or convert date/time to epoch seconds. You can do everything with epoch seconds, even though it is a tad longer. I use seconds.

Do you have perl or do you need a C example? You can do Julian Day arithmetic in shell, but that doesn't solve the date/time issue.
# 3  
Old 02-10-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Basically you need to convert the date to Julian Days for a date range or convert date/time to epoch seconds. You can do everything with epoch seconds, even though it is a tad longer. I use seconds.

Do you have perl or do you need a C example? You can do Julian Day arithmetic in shell, but that doesn't solve the date/time issue.
Please provide a perl example
# 4  
Old 02-11-2010
can we use awk/sed to achieve this ??
Smilie

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Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Basically you need to convert the date to Julian Days for a date range or convert date/time to epoch seconds. You can do everything with epoch seconds, even though it is a tad longer. I use seconds.

Do you have perl or do you need a C example? You can do Julian Day arithmetic in shell, but that doesn't solve the date/time issue.
Will the following pseudocode work ?

Quote:
start_epoch <= epoch(start date&time)
end_epoch <= epoch(end date&time)

mytimestamp <= get timestamp in file
mytimestamp_epoch <= epoch(mytimestamp)

if (mytimestamp_epoch >=start_epoch && mytimestamp_epoch <=end_epoch)
then
keep the file
end if
# 5  
Old 02-15-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Basically you need to convert the date to Julian Days for a date range or convert date/time to epoch seconds. You can do everything with epoch seconds, even though it is a tad longer. I use seconds.

Do you have perl or do you need a C example? You can do Julian Day arithmetic in shell, but that doesn't solve the date/time issue.
Yes, It works.
Thanks a lot. Smilie
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