Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all:

Running SunOS 5.6 on a SPARCstation-5...and using bourne shell.
This is a line from a script I am writing:

LOG=/opt/msplib/sys/logs/alarm.log$*

grep "Call Answered" $LOG |wc -l | awk '{ print "Call Answered\t" $1 "\tIVR\t" "AR-a"}



It works great, and produces the following output:

Call Answered 1468 IVR AR-a


My problem is that I need to insert a timestamp between "1468" and "IVR", preferably in the following format: 9/11/04 12:00 AM

I have tried to incorporate the "date" command into my awk statement, but have been unsuccessful.

I am not very familiar with awk, and did not see anything in man awk that jumped out at me.

Any suggestions??

-cd

Set up a variable and then use it in the awk command

today=`date +'%m/%d/%y %T'`
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk -v today=$today '{print $1 "$today"}'

(Not sure my syntax and date format are correct...see this post for more info on awk )

RTM:

I already tried that approach...no luck. Any other ideas, anyone??

-cd

/usr/xpg4/bin/awk -v today="$today" '{print $1 today}'

would print the first field immediately followed by the date.

That did it, Perderabo. Thanks alot!!!

-cd

Referencing the last (below) I have included:

ERRORLOG=/appl/finance/findev/ar/bin/arlog.NWS

I want to grep: grep "NEW TIME STAMP AT" $ERRORLOG

and include any data generated after date. How can I include any lines generated after date of last transmission?