in reply to extract lines from file between date range.

Offering the obligatory one-liner for this: 
perl -ane '$d=join q|/|,reverse(split q|/|, $F[8],3); print if $d ge q
+|2018/02/01| and $d le q|2018/02/06|' YOUR-FILE.TXT

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