How to grep lines from a log file that have the current date?

Question

I need to grep a log file with today\'s date, but the output is showing for more than today\'s date.

grep date +\"20%y-%m-%d\" /path/log/General.log | grep \         


        

Answer 1

If you need to add space delimited fields in date command use double quotes around $() :

$ grep "$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")" file
2013-06-21 00:01:24,915 - INFO   
2013-06-21 00:01:24,915 - INFO