Hello I would like to ask for help with a script to search a directory that contains many log files and based on a users input after being prompted, they enter a date range down to the hour which searches the files that contain that range.
I dont know how to go about this. I am hoping that the user would be prompted by entering the hour to search but that wont work when the day changes and you have a number of files of separate days but same hour.
Would the user need to enter a variable for each date component "enter year, enter month, enter day, enter hour and then the script searches the best range of files
XSLog$YYYY.$MM.$dd-$hh.01.00.txt - if this is the best way how could this be done based on the log file format below?
I hope it makes sense what I am asking.
Thankyou
Last edited by lostincashe; 03-30-2012 at 06:09 AM..
Thanks for the site. That find command is very handy and powerful but I am not sure I can use it in my case.
Some problems I have are.
-That the directory contains upto 2 weeks of files.
-Can contain other file types and I only want it to search the XSLogxxxxx files.
-The user will type in a day and hour to search on.
-From that user input, the script then searches the small range of files based on date and hour for whatever data they need.
I was thinking of using the user input after being prompted for "year" "month" "day" and "hour" and using the variables of those to produce the file range to search on.
I have not tried this but would this be an approach ?
Thankyou for any advice better methods or examples
There's one thing in your favor -- YYYY MM DD HH MM SS dates sort alphabetically. ls will give you them in date order. Then all you do is an alphabetic < > comparison to see if they're in the range you want...
Thanks very much, I will try this when I am next at work on Monday.
I was not aware of the IFS "/" so it was interesting to read your post.
Thanks again
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