TEST command

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have been looking into searching various files to display output.

The search criteria will be a month and year to output various numbers in the files.

is there any way to do this with the TEST function or would it have to be another way?

2

You want grep.

grep 'thing to find ' filename*

3

thanks.

would this be along the lines of the right thing do you think?

basically i want to find months and years across numerous files and display them as output.

if i change the "www.athabascau" bit to the filename will it work?

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what does 'www.athabascu' have to do with months and years? Show some sample data inside the file

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sample date inside the file is:

IP Address - Day -Month - date -Time - Yr

I need to be able to do the search using month and year to output the rows from across multiple hits files.

the www. bit was just from an example i had. sorry i forgot to delete it.