Need logs 5 mins old

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I need 5 mins old logs to be dumped into a a new file.

The date formats in the two log files are

Can you suggect for both formats ?

bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS myserver 5.10 Generic_150400-26 sun4v sparc sun4v

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This is what i do for 10 mins of logs

set the crontab to work every 9,19,29,39,49,59 mins

10minlogs.sh

LOGDATE=`date '+%Y-%m-%d %k:%M' | cut -c1-15`
sleep 60
grep "$LOGDATE" /tmp/logs/server.out>every10min.out

Can some help me with 5 mins of logging for both or even one of the date formats in this or any other fashion ?

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Format #2 can be compared with awk, like

awk -v DATE="5-minutes-ago-timestamp" '$0 >= DATE' inputfile

Getting the 5 minutes ago date on Solaris can be difficult, on Linux you would use GNU date, on Sun you can try using my perl script

So:

awk -v DATE=$(./gdate.pl +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" -d "now - 5 minutes") '$0 >= DATE' logfile

I'm not sure how to deal with format #1, informally-formatted dates like that are a pain to compare.

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Hi.

For systems new enough:

OS, ker|rel, machine: SunOS, 5.11, i86pc
Distribution        : Oracle Solaris 11.3 X86
gdate date (GNU coreutils) 8.16

Best wishes ... cheers, drl