Shell Programming and Scripting

# cat infile
02May09 test data echo "this is a test" \^$$%$#%# May
test data echo "this is a test" \^$$%$#% 02Jul10 #
test data echo 02Aug11 "this is a test" \^$$%$

for i in Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
do
strings infile | sed -n "s/.*\([0-9][0-9]$i[0-9][0-9]\).*/\1/p"; done
02May09
02Jul10
02Aug11

user@localhost ~ $ for I in Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec ; do strings binaryFile | sed -n "s/.*\([0-9][0-9]${I}[0-9][0-9]\).*/\1/p" ; done
09Sep09
user@localhost ~ $

strings binaryFile | grep -E "Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec" | awk '{ print $(variable with month inside) }'

strings binaryFile | grep -Eo "[0-9]+Sep[0-9]+"

strings infile | grep -Eo '[0-9][0-9]May[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Jul[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Aug[0-9][0-9]'
02May09
02Jul10
02Aug11

user@localhost ~ $ cat binaryFile | sed -n 's/[0-9][0-9]Jan\|Feb\|Mar[0-9][0-9]/&/g/p'
sed: expression -e #1, char 40: `s' option unknown
user@localhost ~ $ strings binaryFile | sed -n 's/[0-9][0-9]Jan\|Feb\|Mar[0-9][0-9]/&/g/p'
sed: expression -e #1, char 40: `s' option unknown
user@localhost ~ $

user@localhost ~ $ strings binaryFile | grep -Eo "[0-9]+Sep[0-9]+"
09Sep09
user@localhost ~ $

user@localhost ~ $ strings binaryFile | grep -Eo '[0-9][0-9]Jan[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Feb[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Mar[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Apr[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]May[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Jun[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Jul[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Aug[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Sep[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Oct[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Nov[0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9]Dec[0-9][0-9]'
09Sep09
user@localhost ~ $

strings binaryFile | grep -Eo '[0-9]+Jan[0-9]+|[0-9]+Feb[0-9]+|[0-9]+Mar[0-9]+|[0-9]+Apr[0-9]+|[0-9]+May[0-9]+|[0-9]+Jun[0-9]+|[0-9]+Jul[0-9]+|[0-9]+Aug[0-9]+|[0-9]+Sep[0-9]+|[0-9]+Oct[0-9]+|[0-9]+Nov[0-9]+|[0-9]+Dec[0-9]+'

strings binaryFile | grep -Eo '[0-9][0-9][A-Z][a-z][a-z][0-9][0-9]'