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Okay, I'm just trying to extract date/time information from apache logs.
standard logs, nothing changed, have the date/time information inside of square brackets:
Now, I was just going to use awk to list just the date/time, but I feel like maybe i am missing something. I want to use either of the square brackets as field separators(sp?), but cannot seem to figure it out...
any point me to what is probably an obvious solution?
tia
edit:: I am aware that this could be done with piping to yet another awk command, but I was really hoping there might be a more elegant solution...
In order to change the field separaters in awk, you use the command line switch -F. However, I couldn't get it to recognize []'s as legitimate charcters in that field.
Yeah, they are functionally identical to each other.
Thanks duck, I am still having the same problem. Its a multiple field separator problem. I can get awk to use just a single "[" as a field separator, but not "[" and "]"...
Sorry, I missed your edit. I personally think the two pipes version is much easier to read and hence better, but if you prefer a single pipe solution the most obvious one I can think of is
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