How to processing the log file within certain dates based on the file name
 

Hi I am working on the script parsing specific message "TEST" from multiple file. The log file name looks like:

N3.2009-11-26-03-05-02.console.log.tar.gz
N4.2009-11-29-00-25-03.console.log.tar.gz
N6.2009-12-01-10-05-02.console.log.tar.gz

I am using the following command:

zgrep -a --text "TEST" * | awk -F"[ .,]" '{sub(".*:","",$6); sub(",.*","",$7); print $1,$6,$7,$10}

and getting
N3 2009-11-25 20:12:57 TEST
N4 2009-11-28 10:42:18 TEST
N6 2009-12-01 10:00:24 TEST

If I only want to search the log file after 2009-11-29, what shall I change the command?


Thanks

You can use the mktime function in awk seehttp://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gawk/gawk_138.html