Re: excluding a timespan in the middle of FROM, TO

Thank you for your reply. As I said, I am a programming/coding klutz.

So your reply, which is no doubt very helpful if I could understand it,
means nothing much to me.

Where is stdin, how do I read from it and how do I do a filter?
How would I use a filter (what would that look like?) "as a preprocessor"?

I'm afraid that I am 'drowning' in this strange talk and need a very 
large and buoyant life-jacket to help me keep afloat and navigate 
through this verbage. Sigh.

Sorry.

JW



Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote:
> janet ward wrote:
>> I want to exclude a part of the day from my day calculations (this seems
>> to be the only way to remove a unidentifiable robot that went through
>> during the time to be excluded).
>>
>> I want to exclude from 11:45 to 11:51.
>>
>> The FROM and TO parameters appear only to allow me to exclude *before*
>> 11:45 and *after* 11:51, whereas I want to exclude *after* 11:45 and
>> *before* 11:51.
> The only solution I can think of without modifying the code is filtering 
> the requests before analog processes the log file, either by reading 
> from stdin and filtering using grep, or by using a filter as a 
> preprocessor.
> 
> cat log | grep -v -f file-with-date-time-patterns-to-exclude | analog ...
> 

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