[PLUG] Bash question . . .

[wes]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:26 AM, frankhunt <fh-linux at frankhunt.com> wrote:

> I'm writing a script to pull some stuff out of /var/log/messages by
> date.  I am having problems finding any entries with a single digit date
> because the messages file dates look like this:
> Mmm<space><space>d for single digit dates.  The output of
> YESTERDAY=`date --date='yesterday'|cut -c 5-10`; echo $YESTERDAY gives
> me Mmm<space>d for single digit dates.  Therein lies the problem - grep
> is looking for Nov 3 with one leading space while the messages file has
> Nov  3 with two leading spaces.  Gotta be a way to do this, I'm just not
> smart enough to figure it out.  Pretty sure most of you guys are . . .
>
> --
> frank hunt
> (L0F) R0B-ZAR1
> befuddled linux admin
> erstwhile photographer
> hillsboro oregon
>
>
first dirty hack to spring to mind: pipe through sed "s/  / /"

-wes