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great it works !! a sysadmin changed the permissions on the file :( without telling me over the weekend. your tips have been great thank you very very much. If I now wanted to pass user input to gwak script ie. #!/bin/sh echo "What is DSN or BUSORG_ORGID for your search?" read BUSORG_ORGID...

thanks for the tip i just tried : /^END/ && ok && numeric > "20000000000000" && numeric < "20060425235959" { print sec }' *.rv>dateresults.txt and still nothing :(

Thanks Annihilannic thats great i still need to work on it a little i think but at least i have a good idea form your script. I did test yours but got nothing in a out put file /^END/ && ok && numeric > "20060420000000" && numeric < "20060421235959" { print sec }' *.rv>dateresults.txt

Thankyou both for your suggetions They sound good but a little confused on how to impliment them Dear Mike The code looks good however my perl knowledge is very basic. So i see that it will find the right range , but what about the ORGID? How do I incoperate this into my script? gawk...

Your right. sorry it the date thing i am not sure how to do it. Sure how to compare dates and find if they are in a desired range.i.e I thought i would convert start date and end date : from dd mm yyy to yyy ddd then minus end yyy ddd from start yyy ddd then ??? I am not sure how to do...

Hi i am a noob and need a little help to finish my shell script. I am learning as i go but hit a problem. I am search thorugh logs(*.rv) files to find entires between two user defined dates,ie dd mm yyyy - dd mm yyy The script so far looks for the "START" and "END" of each entry at sees if it...

Thankyou that works great !!!! I am going to start looking at lookinf between times and dates next but not untill tommorrow ! Thankyou again

I want to export from a log file.from ^START to ^END only if that record is from "BUSORG_ORID#" i want So far I have... awk /^START/,/^END/ *.rv >results.txt # this is able to divide the text file into the sections i want. and i was thinking about something like... awk /^START/,/^END/ &&...