Re: tlug: bash ?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

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tlug note from "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>
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>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com> writes:

    Jim> On 28-Feb-97 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

    >> date=$1 ls -l | grep -i "^.\43\}$date" | cut -c56-
    >>                          ^^^^^^^ What's this, gomi?

Oh, I see, you dropped the `{'; you wanted `^.\{43\}$date'.  It looked 
like modem droppings....  (I didn't realize GNU grep accepted that
kind of count; I though it was a feature of Perl that grep didn't have).

    Jim> It's supposed to grab the date starting in column 43 of the
    Jim> output of ls -l

You might actually find that find(1) is a better tool for this
purpose.

Steve

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                            Stephen J. Turnbull
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