Shorten your log analysis

Bigger the log file, it will be difficult for anyone to search during analysis, hence wanted to shorten log file based on the Day, Month, and most importantly time(Hour).

I have written script based on the hourly basics, which will retrieve your logs for requested day of the month.

I have tried on Redhat/CentOS.

Script can be found here, Download

#!/bin/bash
LOGFILE="/var/log/messages"

echo "Enter the time stamp to search in log files"

read -p "Day: " DAY
read -p "Month[Eg aug..etc]: " MONTH
read -p "Hour[Eg 02, 10..etc]: " HOUR

echo;
echo -e "\e[00;31mLogs which occured in mentioned timestamp: $DAY"-"$MONTH"-"$HOUR":00" \e[00m"
echo;

if [ $DAY -lt 9 ]
then
BLANK=" "
cat $LOGFILE | grep "$HOUR:[0-5][0-9]" | grep -i -n "$MONTH $BLANK$DAY"
else
cat $LOGFILE | grep "$HOUR:[0-5][0-9]" | grep -i -n "$MONTH $DAY"
fi