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# 1  
Old 01-24-2014
Get the date greater than defined date
Code:
 file.txt
2013-01-01
2013-01-02
2013-01-03
2013-01-04

I need some method to get only date which are greater than 2013-01-03 in a seperate file
Code:
2013-01-03
2013-01-04

Code:
I have tried  cat file.txt | awk -F. '$2 > '2013-01-03' {print $0}' >> a2.txt

# 2  
Old 01-24-2014
$2 is guaranteed to be blank for your input, since it has no second column.

awk does not need cat's help to read one file.

You cannot nest single quotes inside single quotes, use double-quotes inside the single-quotes.

Code:
awk '$1 > "2013-01-03"' inputfile >> outputfile

# 3  
Old 01-24-2014
Hello,

Could you please try the following. It will give dates grater then requested.
check_date is the input file.


Code:
while read line
do
if [[ "$line" > "2013-01-03" ]]
then
echo $line 
echo $line > OUTPUT_date_checking
fi
 
done < "check_date"


Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 01-24-2014 at 12:11 PM..
# 4  
Old 01-24-2014
Could this ?

Code:
$ cat <<test | awk 'function dform(t){gsub("-"," ",t);return mktime(t" "00" "00" "00)}dform($1)>=dform(inp)' inp="2013-01-03"     
2013-01-01
2013-01-02
2013-01-03
2013-01-04
test

2013-01-03
2013-01-04

for file
Code:
$ awk 'function dform(t){gsub("-"," ",t);return mktime(t" "00" "00" "00)}dform($1)>=dform(inp)' inp="2013-01-03"  file

# 5  
Old 01-24-2014
It will work but is severe overkill because YYYY-MM-DD dates sort alphabetically. This means you can compare them directly, just as strings, without converting them into epoch times.
# 6  
Old 01-24-2014
i used
Code:
 awk '$1 > "2013-01-03"' inputfile >> outputfile

but it is not taking 2013-01-03 i am getting only 2013-01-04 in my file
# 7  
Old 01-24-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by ATWC
i used
Code:
 awk '$1 > "2013-01-03"' inputfile >> outputfile

but it is not taking 2013-01-03 i am getting only 2013-01-04 in my file


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