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How to search for a pattern inside a file and delete lines in Unix on the command line?

I need to find a pattern in files. For example, the content of the file is below:

3555005!K!00630000078!C!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!K!204042880166840!I!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!D!16042296!DUMMY!20090805235959!0!47001231000000!0!336344324!1!1!POST!USAGE!336344324!0!
3555005!C!336344324!1!!!EUR!1!1!!I!
3555005!S!00630000078!20090805172515!LF010300!

Here I want to find lines with! D! and the 7th field on the line is less than the system date, then I want to delete the line and save the file.

Is it possible?

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If you prefer AWK ...

awk -f logstrip.awk  in.log > out.log

where logstrip.awk looks like this:



# *** Simple AWK script to delete lines from log file ***
#    Rule: keep all lines except these that have their 2nd
#          field equal to "D" and their 7th field more than
#          current date time


BEGIN {
    FS = "!";   #delimiter

    stopDate = systime();
    # stopDate = 47001231000001;   for test purposes

    deletedLineCtr = 0;   #diagnostics counter, unused at this time
}

{
  if (match($2, "D") && ($7 < stopDate) ) {
    deletedLineCtr++;
  }
  else
     print $0
}

must do the trick.

Note, however, your field # 7 contains an odd date format. I think I find out the last epoch value (123 ...) but it is preceded by 4 apparently unrelated digits. They can be easily removed before comparison with StopDate

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Something like this should do the trick ... you can parse the time if it is not how you formatted the field



perl -ne '/^([^!]+!){6}([^!]+).*/; print if $2 < time && /!D!/;'
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Based on mjv's answer , but simplified and using (assuming) a fifth field for the date (split across two lines for readability):

awk -F! 'BEGIN {stopdate=strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S",systime())} 
         $2 != "D" || $5 >= stopdate {print}' file.log > newfile.log
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i tested with sample data in file

3555005!K!00630000078!C!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!K!204042880166840!I!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!D!16042296!DUMMY!20090805235959!0!20090912000000!0!336344324!1!1!POST!vijay!336344324!0!
3555005!C!336344324!1!!!EUR!1!1!!I!
3555005!S!00630000078!20090805172515!LF010300!
3555005!K!204042880166840!I!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!D!16042296!DUMMY!20090805235959!0!20090912000000!0!336344324!1!1!POST!vijay!336344324!0!
3555005!C!336344324!1!!!EUR!1!1!!I!
3555005!S!00630000078!20090805172515!LF010300!
3555005!D!16042296!DUMMY!20090805235959!0!20090917000000!0!336344324!1!1!POST!USAGE!336344324!0!
3555005!C!336344324!1!!!EUR!1!1!!I!
3555005!S!00630000078!20090805172515!LF010300!
3555005!K!204042880166840!I!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!D!16042296!DUMMY!20090805235959!0!20090919000000!0!336344324!1!1!POST!USAGE!336344324!0!
3555005!C!336344324!1!!!EUR!1!1!!I!
3555005!S!00630000078!20090805172515!LF010300!
3555005!K!204042880166840!I!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!D!16042296!DUMMY!20090805235959!0!20090914000000!0!336344324!1!1!POST!vijay!336344324!0!
3555005!C!336344324!1!!!EUR!1!1!!I!
3555005!S!00630000078!20090805172515!LF010300!
3555005!K!204042880166840!I!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!D!16042296!DUMMY!20090805235959!0!20090915000000!0!336344324!1!1!POST!vijay!336344324!0!
3555005!C!336344324!1!!!EUR!1!1!!I!
3555005!S!00630000078!20090805172515!LF010300!
3555005!K!204042880166840!I!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!D!16042296!DUMMY!20090805235959!0!20090913000000!0!336344324!1!1!POST!vijay!336344324!0!
3555005!C!336344324!1!!!EUR!1!1!!I!
3555005!S!00630000078!20090805172515!LF010300!
3555005!K!204042880166840!I!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!D!16042296!DUMMY!20090805235959!0!20090912000000!0!336344324!1!1!POST!USAGE!336344324!0!
3555005!C!336344324!1!!!EUR!1!1!!I!
3555005!S!00630000078!20090805172515!LF010300!
3555005!K!204042880166840!I!20090805235959!47001231000000!16042296!336344324!A!1!ENG!0!00630000078!NO!00630000078!
3555005!D!16042296!DUMMY!20090805235959!0!20090912000000!0!336344324!1!1!POST!USAGE!336344324!0!

but it removes all lines that are composed of! D !. I used the following awk script

# *** Simple AWK script to delete lines from log file ***
#    Rule: keep all lines except these that have their 2nd
#    field equal to "D" and their 7th field more than
#          current date time
BEGIN {
       FS = "!";
         #delimiter
         stopDate = "date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S";
         # stopDate = 47001231000001;  for test purposes
         deletedLineCtr = 0;   #diagnostics counter, unused at this time
      }
      {
      if ( match($2, "D") && ($7 < stopDate) )
          {
           deletedLineCtr++;
          }
      else
           print $0
      }

Am I doing something wrong?

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