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I have a file with the following data. I want to start writing lines out of this file to another file only after the time is greater than 20:00:00 hours and the first job is U1KC000. I would like to be able to run this out of a script and pass the time and job(U1KC000) as an argument.

16:00:26.478 ZEKE JOB START: job U1KC173
16:00:29.340 ZEKE JOB EOJ: job U1KC173
18:00:08.274 ZEKE JOB START: job U1KC159
18:00:30.821 ZEKE JOB EOJ: job U1KC159
20:00:09.140 ZEKE JOB START: job U1KC000
20:00:57.255 ZEKE JOB EOJ: job U1KC000
20:00:57.422 ZEKE JOB START: job U1KC010
20:01:00.760 ZEKE JOB EOJ: job U1KC010
20:01:01.039 ZEKE JOB START: job U1KC001
20:01:06.031 ZEKE JOB EOJ: job U1KC001
20:01:06.138 ZEKE JOB START: job U108BAE
20:01:06.456 ZEKE JOB START: job U108TDO

Code:

awk '{x=$1;gsub(/:|\./,"",x);if(x>=y && $NF==z){f=1}}f' y=200009000 z=U1KC000 infile

I see where you represent the infile, but where is the outfile. Do I just > to output

Yep

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If your log pass midnight we'll have to implement a different logic.

that is sweet it worked like a charm

thanks

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well what I do have is two logs that I have to combine. The second log will pick up at midnight and go until noon. I was going to try and take what you gave me and make it do that.

But if you could lend me a hand that would be great

I can cat the logs together and then have logic to handle both. Start at 20:00:00 hours and equal to U1KC000, then don't pull anything past noon the next day. The problem is the first part has to happen first to drop all the jobs prior to U1KC000 starting, then drop anything after the last job in our batch(U1KC902). That is the last job in our batch, but I need the ability to change the times and jobs with arguments in case things change

You can start from here:

Code:

awk '{u=$1;gsub(/:|\./,"",x);if(u>=x && $NF==y){f=1};if($NF==z){a=1};if(a && $NF!=z){exit}}f' x=200000000 y=U1KC000 z=U1KC902 log1 log2

I changed log1 and log2 to my log files and it runs without errors, but I get no output?