I have a text file called database.txt and the 16th field contains 16:01:08 2007-01-10. I'm trying to archive all records over 45 days old to be appended to archive.txt I've a newbie when it comes to scripting and have been trying to google an answer for a similar question but am having trouble knowing what I should be searching for. Do you know of any examples I can take a look that would accomplish this.

type|address|city|state|size|rent|term|company|contact|phone|email|website|ID|REMOTE_ADDR|HTTP_USER_AGENT|DATE|SORTORDER
MFG|10 Oakmead Pkwy|San Jose|CA |10,000|$1.25|Net|Cushman Wakefield|Tom Cushman|408 555-8777|tom@cushman.com|http://www.google.com|1000000|76.102.98.35|Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)|16:01:08 2007-01-10|1003
LAND|10 Oak|San Jose|CA|14,000|$1.25|Net|Ritchie Commercial|Don Ritchie|408 555-8777|tom@cushman.com|http://www.yahoo.com|1000001|76.102.98.35|Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)|16:28:03 2008-01-10|1002

Thanks,
Chris

In reply to Extracting Line from Text file over 45 days old by chris654

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