On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:22:44PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Florin Iucha wrote: > >My script looks for dates as they occur _two spaces_ after some variable > >piece of text [1]. The awk is more straight forward but can be thrown > >off by extra logging at the beginning, or spaces in names. > > I don't understand how that command can be thrown off. It first egreps > for the '^From ' lines, so it doesn't get extra lines and it doesn't miss > lines, then it does the gawk on only those lines. Those lines have a > uniform format. There are never "spaces in names" because the names are > always email addresses that cannot have spaces in them. So the number of > fields is always the same and the gawk will never fail. I was thinking about "Florin Iucha" <florin at iucha.net> kind of spaces in names, but the log message can have (and in my case has) spaces. I was wrong in the second instance, but right in the first instance. Please look again at the snippet I've posted from my .procmailrc . florin -- "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050819/8d11b70f/attachment.pgp