reading lines from a file between two search patterns

Hi,

I am new to shell scripting and is working on a script to extract lines from a log file between two time stamps using awk command. After some research I used following command:

awk '/01 Oct 2011/{p=1} /10 Oct 2011/{p=0} p' test.log >> tmp.log

This works fine. But now i want to convert the hard coded dates to variable and have following command, but that does not work. I do not see any error message either

date1="16 Oct 2011"
date2="17 Oct 2011"
awk -v "d1=${date1}" -v "d2=${date2}" '/d1/{p=1} /d2/{p=0} p' test.log >> tmp.log

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. If you think there is a better way of doing this then please suggest.

Thanks in advance...

Give a try with :

 awk -v d1="${date1}" -v d2="${date2}" '$0~d1{p=1} $0~d2{p=0} p' test.log >> tmp.log

Thanks... that works perfectly... can you please explain me the usage '$0~d1{p=1} $0~d2{p=0} p'. So i have a better understanding of this