Hello,
I am new to shell scripting , and here is what I want to do, I need to parse a huge log file and create a text file with that months log records.
Example :
Actual log looks like this
07/12/2003 /web/scripts/mms_script
08/13/2003 /web/scripts/mm_scripts
09/12/2003 /web/scripts/mms_script
10/13/2003 /web/scripts/mm_scripts
11/12/2003 /web/scripts/mms_script
11/13/2003 /web/scripts/mm_scripts

If i run the script it should create november.txt with all the lines of november in them.

11/21/2003 /web/scripts/mm_script
11/21/2003 /web/scripts/mms_script

Appreciate your help !!

What did you try yourself??

cat logfile | grep '^11' > november.txt

$ cat logfile | grep '^11'
11/12/2003 /web/scripts/mms_script
11/13/2003 /web/scripts/mm_scripts

Or, if you want the month found automatically:

$ cat logfile | grep "^`date '+%m'`" > "`date '+%B'`".log

The above samples can be run from the command line. Up to you to script them