Shell Programming and Scripting

Attachment 1551I have a script where a user provides a date, start time and end time. The script will take these values and scan a log file to search for key words in the log file that fall within the time range. When a user uses AM times (Example: 700 to 900 - this is 7am to 9am) as a range or PM times (Example: 1400 to 1600 - this is 2pm to 4pm) as a range the script works fine. when they use an AM start time and a PM end time the script does not function properly. I've attached the script.

Here is the line in question that I"m having problems with if people don't want to look at the entire attached script.
echo "Number of ${shipmentTags[$i]} shipments processed in log file log$logDate/$logFileName is:`cat $logDirectory/log$logDate/$logFileName | awk -F":" '$1$2 >= '"$startTime"' && $1$2 <= '"$endTime"' {print $0}' | grep ${shipmentStrings[$i]} | wc -l`"

Thanks. I've copied here just some dummy data of what the log would look like.

07:00:01.124 dfsdfjsdflkjsdfkljsdflkjEDIRequestServiceModule/Routedasdfkl
07:05:02.123 fsldjfsdfskdfjsdfsdkfjEDIRequestServiceModule/Rouedsdfjsdfj
07:10:33.233 sdkjfasdflkjasdfaskdfjasdfkljEDIRequestServiceModule/Routed
09:30:02.222 sefsklfjsdfljksdfEDIRequestServiceModule/Routedasdfdf
14:00:12.222 sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfEDIRequestServiceModule/Routed sdfsdfs
14:01:22.223 sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfEDIRequestServiceModule/Routed sdfsdfsdf
17:00:22.222 sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfEDIRequestServiceModule/Routedsdfsdfsdf
18:00:33.333 sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf

One thing I noticed, and I will have to go back and look further, but you are referencing a shell variable within awk. But, you do not appear to pass the variable into awk.

for instance, something like...
awk -v myvar=$var1 '{ blah blah with myvar }'

i'm not sure declaring the variables to awk would make a difference b/c i'm not currently doing that now and the script works fine as long as i don't put in a time range that starts in the AM (700) and ends in the PM (1400). Any more thoughts?

Thanks for the quick reply though.

Can anyone please take a look...its been several days now and I've had no responses. Even just some steps in the right direction would be great. Thank you.

What happens with a AM time that is greater than 09:59, and any PM time? (thinking it might be a leading 0 problem, maybe?)

Can I assume that the log files will have one entry per line, and do not have dates?

When i have an AM time (from-time) that is greater than 9:59 and a to-time that is greater than 9:59, the script works fine and the counts show up correctly. The script also works if there is an AM time (from-time) that is less than 10:00 and the other time (to-time) is less than 10:00. Its weird...when the AM time (from-time) is less than 10:00 and the other time (to-time) is greater than 9:59, that's when the script doesn't work.

You are correct on your assumption.

Hmm, any chance you could cheat, and run the log file through a sed statement and have it pull out ^0 and see what happens with no leading zeros in the log?