Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I got a requirement to fetch data between two time stamps in a big log file and grep for a word in that particular time interval of data.

Here is my log looks like:

Code:

2012/04/08-14:35:56                  Abcdefg
2012/04/08-14:35:56                  Hijklmnophhoishfw
2012/04/08-14:35:56                  fwhgiufhwiuhfoiwhfw
2012/04/08-14:55:56                  wewuwcdiwhcih
2012/04/08-15:35:56                  ihydoiwyhfroiwhflw

Now my requirement is to pull records from 2012/04/08-14:35:56 to 2012/04/08-14:55:56

if you see the above file there might be multiple lines with the same timestamp, I need the data to be copied over to another file from first occurance of:

Code:

2012/04/08-14:35:56 to 2012/04/08-14:55:56.

Could anyone please help me.

Thanks in advance
Siri

This will separate you all numbers so you can do a numeric sort by prioritizing on which you want to sort first, second, etc.

using awk to check by field number, you can then get the record numbers you need.

Code:

sed 's/\([0-9][0-9.]*\)/ & /g'