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Script to grep log files based on system date

I would like help to write a script to grep a log file and count the no of lines based on a string and/or system date and mail the result.

For ex

Mon May 4 04:10:09 2009 ---x-x-x-x-
Mon May 4 15:44:27 2009 x-x-x--x-xx--x
Mon May 4 15:45:35 2009 xx=xxx-x-x--xx
Mon May 4 22:53:43 2009 xxx-x-x--x-xx
Tue May 5 07:27:18 2009 xxxx
Tue May 5 04:12:58 2009 abcd

In this log file i should be able grep no of lines for system date ( ex for May 5 its 2 and for may 4 its 4) also if possible grep no of lines for a string within the results of the first query by(date) and mail the result. for example for May 5 no of lines for string abcd will be 1.

Help in advance is appreciated.

Thanks
Mohammed

So your first stop would be 'man grep' for a basic understanding of what grep can do, then 'man date' for a basic understanding of how to get it to output your datestamp format. Then on to http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html and http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginne...tml/index.html. If you can post back the date string command and what switches grep uses to anchor a searchterm and count lines you're half way through. Good luck!

cron mails automatically as does at

also one can do something like this:

(pipe output to mail)
your_script | mailx -vs subject user

or
if you want to be clever you can embed commands in the mail like:

Code:

mailx -vs subject user <<EOF



The output of the script at: $(date)

is:

================

$(/path/to/script)

[or maybe directly grep]

$(grep this that)



EOF

I'lll leave the grep to you.