BEGIN { RS="\n" FS=";" split(ARG_TICKER, _tmp_tickers, ";") for (i in _tmp_tickers) { tickers[_tmp_tickers[i]] = "" hasTickers = 1 } gsub(/[-: ]/, "", ARG_DATE_AFTER); gsub(/[-: ]/, "", ARG_DATE_BEFORE); } (hasTickers == 1) && ($2 in tickers == 0) { next } { fieldDate=$1 gsub(/[-: ]/, "", fieldDate); if (ARG_DATE_AFTER != "" && ARG_DATE_AFTER > fieldDate) { next } if (ARG_DATE_BEFORE != "" && ARG_DATE_BEFORE < fieldDate) { next } } { if ($2 in unique_tickers == 0) { unique_tickers[$2] = "" } } END { for (i in unique_tickers) { print i } }