Viewing Text Output

[Brett Franck]

Hi,   I am trying to view log files using GREP and variable substitution.  Let's say a user wants to view a log file for "Sep 30"  Here is the shell (BASH) script that I put together for it.   #!/bin/sh cd /routerlogs echo date echo date=`date | cut -c5-7` echo "Which Date Do You Wish to Parse?:"; read dte; echo "Searching....." grep -e "$date $dte"  *.log | grep -e WARNING   It assumes the month as current...(That's a problem for October) but that's not the only problem.  The syslog text that it's reading works fine for double digit date fields, but not for single...allow me to explain.   Sep 30 comes in the syslog as "Sep(space)30"  Oct  1 comes in as "Oct(space)(space)1" thus screwing up my grep on  the double digit date field....  Is there a better way to "grep" for info out of a text file?   Here is my script for viewing "archive" files and works nicely after logrotations, but what about the active logs?   #!/bin/sh cd /var/log/routerlogs/old echo date echo "Current Week of the Year is: `date +%U`" date=`date | cut -c5-7` week=`date +%U` echo "Which Week Do You Wish to Parse?:"; read week; echo "Do You wish to sort by day also?:"; read ans; if [ $ans != y ]; then         if [ $ans != n ]; then         echo "Please re-enter using 'y' or 'n'";read ans                 if [ $ans != y ]; then                 if [ $ans != n ]; then                 echo "Attempt at reading your input Unsuccessful. Exiting....";exit                 fi                 fi         fi fi if [ $ans = y ]; then         echo "Which Day?:";read dte;         echo "Which Month?{eg.Sep}:";read mon;         echo "Searching....."         grep -e "$mon $dte" *.$week | grep -e WARNING else         echo "Searching....."         grep -e WARNING *.$week         exit fi   Again, works fine for single digit "grepping" but I didn't realize that the SYSLOG input data for Oct 1 would have two spaces Vs. one.     Brett