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Old 03-07-2016
Bash regex evaluation not workin
I'm building a script that may received start and end date as parameters. I whant to make it as flexible as possible so I'm accepting epoch and date in a way that "date --date=" command may accept. In order to know if parameter provided is an epoc or a "date --date=" string I evaluate if the value is a number. For this a built a function:

Code:
function isNumber ()
{ [[ "$1" =~ "^[0-9]+$" ]] && echo true || echo false
}

The intended use of the funtion is as following

Code:
while getopts :e:F:G:hmo:r:s:vZ dOpts
do
        case $dOpts in
        "e")    if $(isNumber "$OPTARG")
                then
                        dEnd="$OPTARG"
                else
                        dEnd=$(date --date="$OPTARG" +%s)
                fi
                ;;
        "s")    if $(isNumber "$OPTARG")
                then
                        dStart="$OPTARG"
                else
                        dStart=$(date --date="$OPTARG" +%s)
                fi
                ;;
        esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))

I'm running on:
Code:
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 (mockbuild@x86-001.build.bos.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Sat Nov 24 14:35:28 EST 2012

And my bash version is:
Code:
# rpm -qa bash
bash-4.1.2-9.el6_2.x86_64

Every time I evaluate the function it returns false. I made this test on my console and it do return false every time.

Code:
# isNumber e-1month
false
# isNumber 1420088400
false
# [[ 1420088400 =~ '[0-9].' ]] && echo true || echo false
false
# [[ 1420088400 =~ '[0-9]+' ]] && echo true || echo false
false
# [[ "1420088400" =~ '^[0-9]+$' ]] && echo true || echo false
false

What I'm I doing wrong with this redex evaluation? I'm I missing an option on bash? This is my invocation line of the script
Code:
#!/bin/bash

Thank you for attention to this message.
# 2  
Old 03-07-2016
Within [[ ]] the pattern/ERE must not be quoted (unless you want to inhibit all special meaning).
Code:
[[ "$1" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]

Also there is no need to quote the LHS.
This User Gave Thanks to MadeInGermany For This Post:
lramirev
# 3  
Old 03-09-2016
Unquoting redex worked
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
Within [[ ]] the pattern/ERE must not be quoted (unless you want to inhibit all special meaning).
Code:
[[ "$1" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]

Also there is no need to quote the LHS.
Thank you. I just noticed your reply and yes, it needs to be unquoted.

Code:
# [[ "1420088400" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && echo true || echo false
true
# [[ "1 day ago" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && echo true || echo false
false

Thabnk you again
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