Re: Optimise the script

Instead of converting every single timestamp from your logfile, generate a single timestamp ($converted_date) that matches your log format , and use it to do string comparison instead of date calculation

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Re^2: Optimise the script by Anonymous Monk on Mar 30, 2011 at 12:03 UTC
To elaborate, here is a c-program way of doing this `$ date -d "2 days ago" "+%e/%b/%Y" 28/Mar/2011 $ grep "28/Mar/2011" input.txt` [download] or combine it (might not work on every shell) $ grep `date -d "2 days ago" "+%e/%b/%Y"` input.txt [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]