[CentOS] Text Proccessing script - advice?

Tue Dec 21 17:33:51 UTC 2010
lhecking at users.sourceforge.net <lhecking at users.sourceforge.net>

> sort -t ','? -k 3,3 -k 4,4? file.log? # this will sort the file according to the DATE field as well as the Time fileld.
> I'm stuck for the last 30 min to find a way to get the first line of each day (logically it'll be the earliest as i've sorted by date/time previously) once i know how to do this, i'll be able to compare time and proceed..
 
 If you're not afraid of perl, the Date-Manip module allows comparing time
 and date, among other things.



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