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Works perfectly! I'm not too familiar with awk syntax. Would you mind explaining what $2" "$3 < s is doing? I get that you're comparing something to the s variable, but I'm unsure what parts of the input are represented by $2 and $3

Mike S
– Mike S

2018-12-08 13:42:42 +00:00
Commented Dec 8, 2018 at 13:42
Second ($2) and third ($3) column?.

user232326
– user232326

2018-12-08 19:52:11 +00:00
Commented Dec 8, 2018 at 19:52
Oh, I see the problem I was having. I hadn't looked close enough at the time stamps to notice there was a space in them. So when you mentioned a third field, I thought for some weird reason awk treated the whitespace as a "field", which didn't make sense to me and threw my whole interpretation of the syntax into disarray :P

Mike S
– Mike S

2018-12-08 20:18:01 +00:00
Commented Dec 8, 2018 at 20:18

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