Any suggestions on the format that I could use to extract this timestamp?
#Fri Aug 31 14:37:21 2012
thanks,
James
Hi
Check this
| makeresults 
| eval temp="#Fri Aug 31 14:37:21 2012" 
| eval epoch =strptime(temp,"#%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y") 
| eval result = strftime(epoch,"%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S")
					
				
			
			
				
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
			
			
		Hi
Check this
| makeresults 
| eval temp="#Fri Aug 31 14:37:21 2012" 
| eval epoch =strptime(temp,"#%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y") 
| eval result = strftime(epoch,"%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S")
					
				
			
			
				
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
		thanks, works great inline
Also, for sourcetype, I used TIME_PREFIX=#