On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Owen Beckley <OwenB at foxriver.com> wrote: > >> -----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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanx Owen, that's probably what I needed, but it seems there's something wrong with the logs on this server since it only has this month's data in /var/log/messages and /var/log/message.1 - 4 doesn't have much either. I'll have to investigate this first to see what's up. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532