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Old 11-24-2011
need code for date which is in yyyy-mm-dd format

Hi,

I am having one log files. contains som data according to date. And it is going to append .Eg:abc.log contains below data

Code:
2011-10-19 abjhgj
2011-10-19  gjhgjgj
2011-10-20 hhhjh
2011-10-20 hhhhjj
2011-10-21 gg
.
.
.
2011-11-24 yyy



from log files i want catch only todays date line and want to copy in to another file

eg:

Code:
grep '2011-11-24' abc.log >2011-11-24.log


hope u have understand this much :-)


now above code i am going to envolve in shellscript.so instead of daily doing this i want it

Code:
grep 'yyyy-mm-dd' abc.log >yyyy-mm-dd.log
 
(note-here date should be only todays date )

plz help me to do so


Thanks
# 2  
Old 11-24-2011
You have completed almost ..
Code:
$ dat=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
$ grep "$dat" abc.log > $dat.log

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# 3  
Old 11-24-2011
Code:
grep "$( date +"%F" )" abc.log > $( date +"%F" ).log

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