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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting validate date pattern using Regular Expression Post 302414044 by Scrutinizer on Monday 19th of April 2010 05:02:42 AM
Old 04-19-2010
You could try this with standard globbing:
Code:
#!/bin/bash or #!/bin/ksh93
checkDate="2010-04-09"
regex="[1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-1][0-9]-[0-3][0-9]"
echo $regex
if [[ $checkDate =~ $regex]]
then
    echo "OK"
else
    echo "not OK"
fi

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-19-2010 at 04:25 PM.. Reason: Changed glob to regex. Somehow thought globs were used for regex, but that is incorrect. Tnx Snemetz
 

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