[ale] regex question?

[Robert L. Harris]

This is more than I want.  I just want it for 2 days of the 30.  And
bing about 50-100 lines per day, I really need it limited.  It looks
like the 03/(19|20)/02 is what's needed.

Thus spake Geoffrey (esoteric at 3times25.net):

> grep 03/[0123][0-9]/02
> 
> Will locate any date in the month of 03 for year 02.
> 
> Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> >Got one just annoying me.  It's going to be something simple I'm sure.
> >>From a ksh command line I'm executing a set of commands:
> >
> >/usr/local/bin/doreport | grep 03/1[34]/02
> >
> >obviously to limit it based on date.  This works great when the date is
> >13 and 14, but what's the best way to do the grep for something like the
> >19 and 20 or even 31 and 01?  I tried [13|14] and that doesn't work, I'd
> >rather keep it short and not have an egrep '03/14/02|03/15/02' as that
> >can be a bit ugly for some juniors I'm trying to teach.
> >
> >Robert
> >
> >
> >:wq!
> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
> >Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
> >  at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
> >                                \_       that important!
> >DISCLAIMER:
> >      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> >FYI:
> > perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> >
> >
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> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?



:wq!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
  at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
                                \_       that important!
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'


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