Re^3: Using binary search to get the last 15 minutes of httpd access log

[mhearse]

That is a valid point which I considered too. But this script will run on a loghost. And if I remember correctly... the timestamp will be applied to the messages as they arrive to the loghost.

[mhearse]

Here is the code I ended up using to search the ordered apache logs for a specific time block.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use Search::Dict;

open my $fh, "/var/log/http/access_log";
my $start = 'Oct  2 10:21:';
my $end = 'Oct  2 10:2[1-2]:';
look $fh, $start;

while (my $line = <$fh>) {
    last if ($line !~ /$end/);
    print $line;
}

Also, looks like I should have done a more thorough search