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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Globbing slash Wildcarding Question Post 302105433 by Glenn Arndt on Thursday 1st of February 2007 03:50:34 PM
Old 02-01-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by sb008
filename[01][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-9][0-9].dat
That would allow for invalid dates, e.g., filename009900.dat. In ksh, give this a try (slightly tested):
Code:
filename@(0[1-9]|1[0-2])@(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[0-1])@([0-9][0-9]).dat

Keep in mind that you still would be allowing for non-existent dates such as February 31 or November 31.
 

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ARP2ETHERS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     ARP2ETHERS(8)

NAME
arp2ethers - convert arpwatch address database to ethers file format SYNOPSIS
arp2ethers DESCRIPTION
arp2ethers converts file arp.dat in the current directory into ethers(5) format on stdout. Usually arp.dat is an ethernet/ip database file generated by arpwatch(8). The arpwatch daemon in Debian will create different arp.dat depending on its configuration. All of them will be available at /var/lib/arpwatch/. FILES
/var/lib/arpwatch - default directory for arp.dat arp.dat - ethernet/ip address database SEE ALSO
arpwatch(8), ethers(5), rarp(8), arp(8), BUGS
Please send bug reports to arpwatch@ee.lbl.gov. AUTHORS
Original version by Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network Research Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA. Modified for the Debian Project by Peter Kelemen, with additions from Erik Warmelink. The current version is available via anonymous ftp: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/arpwatch.tar.gz This manual page was contributed by Hugo Graumann. ARP2ETHERS(8)
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