extract last 10 minutes from logfile

bash date datetime logfiles
user1204671 picture user1204671 · Dec 18, 2013 · Viewed 46.4k times · Source

Trying to find a simple way for watching for recent events (from less than 10 minutes), I've tried this:

awk "/^$(date --date="-10 min" "+%b %_d %H:%M")/{p++} p" /root/test.txt

but it doesn't work as expected...

Log files are in form :

Dec 18 09:48:54 Blah
Dec 18 09:54:47 blah bla
Dec 18 09:55:33 sds
Dec 18 09:55:38 sds
Dec 18 09:57:58 sa
Dec 18 09:58:10 And so on...

Answer

Zeus picture Zeus · Oct 23, 2014

Here is nice tool range is any you wish from -10 till now

sed -n "/^$(date --date='10 minutes ago' '+%b %_d %H:%M')/,\$p" /var/log/blaaaa

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