Re: shell script to parse html and date comp ?

[email protected] wrote:
> that works well, the other item I need to grab is 'Duration', which can be
> 2 or 3 digits as below;
> is there a way to have egrep get such 2 or 3 digits ?
>
> <tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Duration: </td><td colspan="1"
> rowspan="1">60</td></tr>
> or
> ...<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">120</td>...
Use the ? operator, which means that a match is optional, i.e.

    egrep -i 'duration' | egrep -o '>[0-9][0-9][0-9]?<'

cheers
rickw


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