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Old 12-16-2011
Comparing Output Date to Current System Date
Hi Guys,

Anyone who knows how to compare the current date with the a file containing a date, say for example I have a file that looks like this:
Code:
Command was launched from partition 0.


------------------------------------------------
Executing command in server server6
Fri Dec 16 13:56:44 EET 2011


------------------------------------------------
Executing command in server server3
Fri Dec 16 13:56:44 EET 2011


------------------------------------------------
Executing command in server backup-server
Fri Dec 16 13:56:44 EET 2011


------------------------------------------------
Executing command in server server1
Fri Dec 16 13:56:45 EET 2011


------------------------------------------------
Executing command in server server9
Fri Dec 16 13:56:45 EET 2011

What I want to do is to check even just the DAY DATE HH:MM of the results versus the current system date/time.

Please advice,
rymnd_12345
# 2  
Old 12-16-2011
bash code:
  1. #! /bin/bash
  2.  
  3. curr=`date +"%a %b %d %H:%M"`
  4. while read x
  5. do
  6.     echo $x | egrep -q "^(Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun) "
  7.     [ $? -ne 0 ] && continue || dt=`echo $x | cut -c1-16`
  8.     [ "$curr" == "$dt" ] && echo "Date time in \"$x\" matches with current date time"
  9. done < input
Last edited by balajesuri; 12-16-2011 at 09:27 AM..
# 3  
Old 12-16-2011
Hi balajesuri,

Thanks, I've tried to ran the script but I got no output.


Please advice,
rymnd_12345
# 4  
Old 12-16-2011
Another idea. Bear in mind that because your match includes HH:MM your file needs to be totally up-to-date to get a match. I've assumed that the original log file entries came from the "date" command with no parameters.

Code:
today="`date|cut -c1-16`"
grep "${today}" abc161.txt 2>&1 >/dev/null ; reply=$?
if [ $reply -eq 0 ]
then
        echo "File contains: ${today}"
fi

# 5  
Old 12-16-2011
Hi methyl,

I've tried to ran the script, but still no output was produced. Please see below my file and code:

File:
Code:
Command was launched from partition 0.


------------------------------------------------
Executing command in server server6
Fri Dec 16 16:38:26 EET 2011


------------------------------------------------
Executing command in server server3
Fri Dec 16 16:38:26 EET 2011


------------------------------------------------
Executing command in server backup-server
Fri Dec 16 16:38:26 EET 2011


------------------------------------------------
Executing command in server server1
Fri Dec 16 16:38:26 EET 2011


------------------------------------------------
Executing command in server server9
Fri Dec 16 16:38:26 EET 2011

Code:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/sh

today="`date|cut -c1-16`"
grep "${today}" /home/subdirectory/today-file 2>&1 >/dev/null ; reply=$?
if [ $reply -eq 0 ]
then
        echo "File contains: ${today}"
fi


Br,
rymnd_12345
# 6  
Old 12-16-2011
The script will only have produced output if the time at the time the script was run was:
Code:
Fri Dec 16 16:38

Have we misunderstood your requirement from Post #1 ?
Quote:
What I want to do is to check even just the DAY DATE HH:MM of the results versus the current system date/time
# 7  
Old 12-16-2011
Or said another way: what are you trying to do exactly - please do not explain with your example.

A good answer might be: I'm trying to see if a log file shows that the process is still running. That appears to me to be what you are doing, by the way.
 
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