in reply to Grep logs by start date and end date in different directories
See also Re: GetOpt Organization for some inspirations for command line processing and Re: Looping through multiple directories for another way to process your logs.
And there are modules like Parse::Syslog, Apache::Log and Parse::AccessLog (newer) on CPAN.
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