Tools to break apart large log files.

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Scott Sullivan wrote:

> What I Have:
>     Chat log files that span multiple months (like IRC channel logs).
> 
> What I want:
>     To break those large files into many smaller files based on a certain time
> gag between posts.
>     ie. Break to new file IF time between lines n and n+1 is > 2 hour.

   Use awk. Without seeing what the files look like, I can't be more
   specific.

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