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Old 01-06-2011
@ methyl ----- Man we got HOT..u r a genius..

It worked just fine...thanx a lot to all for ur help. have a good one.

I used this and it worked:

#!/bin/bash
DDMMM="`date '+%b %e'`" # Month day-with-space
grep "vikbenq" /var/log/messages | grep \^"${DDMMM}" > /var/tmp/vikbenq_logs
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Old 01-06-2011
Phew!



@anurag.singh
When using "grep" to search for a string containing space characters, remember to put double quotes round the string.
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