[CentOS] how to get data from syslog for a specific date range?

[Rudi Ahlers]

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
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>> 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
>
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> Owen Beckley
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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.

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Rudi Ahlers
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