Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hello guys,

I have a file called "myFile.log" , the file contains system logs with the dates...Now...I want my script
to open up the file and search for a specific date for example (05-11-2007) and when it find the date, copies the rest of file into
another file. Here is an example

MYFile.log contains:
<hr />
scripts running on suday
Script running on monday
.
.
Script running on 05-11-200
Testing
testing
<hr />

Now I want to create a newFile which contains only

<hr />
Script running on 05-11-200
Testing
testing
<hr />

Not sure if my question is clear enough or not...plz let me know so I can explain it more.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Something like the following:

grep -q "11-05-2007" myFile.log && cp myFile.log some.other.file

should do what you're looking for.

HTH

Jim Lane
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

But this just cp myFile to another file. What I want is to look for the date and if it finds it then copy the REST(start point would be the date) of the file to another file. plz look at my example.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Try the csplit command....

$ csplit MYFile.log %05-11-200%

This will create a file named xx00 which contains:
$ cat xx00
Script running on 05-11-200
Testing
testing
You might want to look at the other options to csplit:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds1/csplit.htm
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Thanks a million
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