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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to grep mix of numbers and systemdate? Post 302270625 by joeyg on Monday 22nd of December 2008 10:30:46 AM
Old 12-22-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver Some of the logic needed
I put my example to a file, and then used cat to show the output. The cat command is not really needed, you could pipe your ls output directly to the grep part of my example.

Code:
> cat file121
XMAS200811100100.txt
XMAS200811110100.txt
XMAS200812150105.txt
XMAS200812220100.txt
XMAS200812220200.txt
XMAS200812220199.txt
XMAS200812220177.txt
> today=`date "+%Y%m%d"`
> cat file121 | grep "XMAS${today}01[0-9][0-9].txt"
XMAS200812220100.txt
XMAS200812220199.txt
XMAS200812220177.txt

 

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NAME

       grcompiler - Compile GDL into a TrueType Font

SYNOPSIS

       grcompiler [-d] [-D] [-g] [-n number] [-v number] [-w number] [-wall] [-q] gdl-file font-file [output-file] [output-fontname]

Description
       Grcompiler  compiles  a	Graphite Description Language description of the smarts for a font along with a TrueType Font to create a graphite
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       -d     Generate XML debugger file.

       -D     Generate all debugger files.

       -g     Permit and ignore invalid glyph definitions.

       -nnumber
	      Set name table start location.

       -q     Quiet mode (no messages except on error).

       -vnumber
	      Set Silf table version number.

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       -wall  Display all warnings.

Environment
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       GDLPP  Specifies the command to execute to run the GDL preprocessor

Files
       gdlerr.txt
	      Warnings and errors are output to this file.

       dbg_classes.txt
	      Debug file that specifies the classes stored in the font in terms of their GDL source and containing glyph ids in hex.

       dbg_cmap.txt
	      Debug file giving Unicode to glyph mapping of all the glyphs in the font and vice versa.

       dbg_enginecode.txt
	      Debug file containing the action code and constraint code associated with each pass and rule in a pass.

       dbg_fsm.txt
	      Debug file that gives the finite state machines of each pass and the rules referenced. For each pass, a  mapping	is  given  between
	      glyph and column number.

       dbg_glyphattrs.txt
	      Debug file containing all the glyph attributes and their names, along with values specified for each glyph.

       dbg_parsetree.txt
	      Debug file giving the complete parse tree of the GDL source file.

       dbg_ruleprec.txt
	      Debug file that lists the rules in precedence order (order in which they will be tested) for each pass.

       $_temp.gdl
	      Debug file containing the output of gdlpp

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