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

You're not actually executing 'date', because it's not been surrounded by backticks. The command should be

grep `date +"20%y-%m-%d"` /path/log/General.log
#    ^--                ^--

Right now, as written, you are searching for the word date in two different files (+"20%Y-%m-%d", and general.log).