Re: shell script to parse html and date comp ?

> I would recommend egrep and use the following extended regular
> expression:
>
>
> egrep -o '[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4}[[:space:]][0-9]{4}'


Rick, Jiri,

many thanks, I'm trying to get this done;

egrep works good, I was trying to shortcut date comparison thing by
converting to seconds, BUT, hit a snag as my system is set to:

#  set | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# date --date='20/03/2014'     +"%s"
date: invalid date `20/03/2014'
# date --date='03/20/2014'     +"%s"
1395234000


which I think means assumed format is mm dd yy ?

where should I change it to en_au ?
redhat

> Of course, all of this would be much easier to code in python, perl or
> ruby.

I'll look at that next time, thanks

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