[Users] Search for messages between timestamps

Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir.org.uk
Wed Aug 22 17:41:19 CEST 2018


On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:29:59 +0300
Removed GDPR <removed-gdpr at example.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:19:00 +0100 Brian Morrison
> wrote:
> 
> > It's probably because one of the limits is not
> > inclusive.  
> 
> AFAIK "ge" means greater or equal and "le" is "less or
> equal", i.e. both are inclusive.

Someone else explained it better, the limit was the start of the last
day you wanted rather than the end.

> 
> > It's a bash script, if you run it again it will
> > probably be a lot faster because the kernel cached
> > the data on the first run.  
> 
> No, it always takes 23-25 seconds.

OK, so I don't know for sure then. Could just be lots of I/O activity
or something that isn't optimised in the script. Maybe a command
argument change would help, the man page should document them all.

-- 

Brian Morrison

                "I am not young enough to know everything"
                                                          Oscar Wilde



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