> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Rudi Ahlers > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:04 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] how to get data from syslog for a specific date > range? > > Hi all, > > Can someone please tell me, or point me in the right direction ( I > have googled, with little luck) on how to get data from > /var/logs/messages (and other log files) for a specified fe days (i.e > 19 - 30 June 2011) ? > Give this a try: grep -E '^Jun (19|2[0-9]|30) ' /var/log/messages And to explain the argument following "-E" see: man grep -- Owen Beckley