Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

I am writing a shell script in which I have to search all records
which are dated 02/24/2005. The file consists of date in mm/dd/yyy format and corresponding job name.

When I tried to use awk /"$1"/ filelist where $1 is input date e.g 02/24/2005 , it gives an error .

I want to search 02/24/2005 as a string and extract record based on this search pattern.

Kindly reply as soon as possible

Thanks

Code:

 awk '/02\/24\/2005/ { print $0 }' file1

the easy way is use grep for this pattern.

Code:

a="02/24/2005"
grep $a file1

Using awk ....

Code:

export a="02/24/2005"
awk -vb=$a '{ if ( $0 ~ b ) { print $0 } } ' file1