perl awk OR sed, search between two timestamps

Question

I have a file with following sample text. (The actual text is huge).

2014/05/08-19:15:44.544824-
2014/05/08-19:21:54.544824-
2014/0         


        

Answer 1

Using a perl one-liner. Capture the time and then just compare.

perl -ne '$t = /(\d+:[\d:.]+)/ ? $1 : undef; 
    print if $t ge "19:15:00" && $t le "19:20:00";' file.txt