grep for date

[Guest_imported]

I want to grep a log file for todays date without the time etc
ie:: date +"%a %b %d"
so I want to grep for Fri Feb 08

having problems with this.tried assigning this to a variable
ie ::set datevar=`date +"%a %b %m"`and tried to grep for that variable but grep only reads the first part ie FRI and not the whole string as one.

Any hel pappreciated

 

[dtanner]

Hi,
Try this.

#!/bin/sh
#
#
datevar=`date +"%a %b %d"`
grep "$datevar" whateveryourlogfile.is

Later!
DT

 

[Guest_imported]

Not sure what shell your using but this worked for me in a ksh script:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
date_var=`date +"%a %b %d"`
grep "$date_var" *


hth

 

[Guest_imported]

cheers !
problem solved!