system-performance/timegrep

Utility to grep log between two dates or tail last lines to time ago.

timegrep

Utility to grep log between two dates or tail last lines to time ago similar dategrep or dateutils.

Examples

Grep last minute from current nginx access log (binary search):

$ timegrep --format=nginx --minutes=1 /var/log/nginx/access.log

Grep datetime interval from archive log (sequential read data from stdin):

$ zcat archive.log.gz | timegrep --start='2017:09:01 15:23:00' --stop='2017:09:01 16:32:00'

Download / Install

• Debian, Ubuntu
• Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS
• Ubuntu PPA - ppa:abbat/timegrep
• Arch, Arch AUR (see also AUR Helpers)
• From source code:

$ git clone https://github.com/abbat/timegrep.git
$ make && sudo make install

Usage

timegrep [options] [files]

Options

• --help, -? - print help message and named datetime formats;
• --version, -v - print program version and exit;
• --format, -e - datetime format (default: 'default');
• --start, -f - datetime to start search (default: now);
• --stop, -t - datetime to stop search (default: now);
• --seconds, -s - seconds to substract from --start (default: 0);
• --minutes, -m - minutes to substract from --start (default: 0);
• --hours, -h - hours to substract from --start (default: 0).

See strptime(3) for format details. See --help for list of format aliases.

Exit code

• 0 - successful completion;
• 1 - nothing found;
• 2 - general application error.

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