How do I print from a specific string to a new line with a matching pattern

[johngiggs]

Hi,

I have a log file I want to parse. Lines normally begin like this:

2022-04-07 12:46:14,624-0400 some text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 ERROR something
oh my gosh
this is terrible
bad error message
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more more text here


I want to capture from the beginning of an error line until the next new line with the timestamp.

What I tried to do is this:

awk '/ERROR something/,/^2022/' mylog.txt

But this didn't work because the pattern match works on my first line. I want to find the next line with the string ^2022, so basically print the current line until the next line of ^2022.

The desired output would be:

2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 ERROR something
oh my gosh
this is terrible
bad error message

Thanks in advance!

 

[mikrom]

Hi,
you can try something like this

johngiggs.awk

{
  if ($0 ~ /[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}/) {
    previous_line = $0
    not_printed = 1 
  } 
  else {
    if (not_printed) {
      print previous_line
      not_printed = 0      
    }
    print
  }
}

On the data file you provided

johngiggs.txt

2022-04-07 12:46:14,624-0400 some text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 ERROR something
oh my gosh
this is terrible
bad error message
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more more text here

the output of the script above is:

$ awk -f johngiggs.awk johngiggs.txt
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 ERROR something
oh my gosh
this is terrible
bad error message

 

[johngiggs]

Hi,

Thank you for that suggestion. It did work for the example, however my example wasn't clear enough. There are some WARN lines that I want to ignore. I want to capture ERROR and the subsequent lines below it until the next new line with a datestamp.

2022-04-07 12:46:14,624-0400 some text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 ERROR something
oh my gosh
this is terrible
bad error message
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more more text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 WARN something else goes here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 ERROR something
oh my gosh
this is terrible
bad error message
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more text here
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 some more more text here

Thanks!

 

[mikrom]

Hi,
it works too with the another input file:

$ gawk -f johngiggs.awk johngiggs.txt
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 ERROR something
oh my gosh
this is terrible
bad error message
2022-04-07 12:46:14,625-0400 ERROR something
oh my gosh
this is terrible
bad error message