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Old 05-26-2009
cambridge cambridge is offline
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I didn't spot that you were ignoring case in your grep commands. Changes in bold red:

Code:
gawk '
   BEGIN {
     for (i=-3;i<=3;i++)
     {
        cmd="date --date=\"" i "days\" \"+%b%d\""
        cmd | getline
        close(cmd)
        dy[tolower($0)]++
     }
   }
   { for (s in dy) if ($0 ~ "^" tolower(s) "[^0-9]") print }' les