Tools to break apart large log files.

[Scott Sullivan]

The log files have a time stamp at the front of each line, like this:

[2009/12/09 19:10]  UserA: Text
[2009/12/09 19:11]  UserB: Responce
[2009/12/09 19:11]  UserB: More Text
[2009/12/09 19:11]  UserA: ??? Profit

I want something that will register when the gap between the time stamps 
is greater then a given value and split them out to separate files.

On 12/09/2009 10:14 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> 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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