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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting String processing to compare dates Post 302543471 by joshuaspence on Monday 1st of August 2011 12:12:15 AM
Old 08-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by yazu
I'm sure it may be easy and this can be done at the same time like this (pseudo-code):
Code:
perl -lne '/(user).*(date)/ ? (right_date($2) && ++$users{$1} && print) : print;
END {
  remove all users from keys %users from htgroups
}

But please, if you want to get real help give real examples of your input.
Thanks for your assistance. I am not familiar with Perl but I will give this a go.

Also, here is some examples of the input:

htpasswd:
Code:
osFtsoPO:ZjCqTssMg26GU
zNXOutfZ:K6wkNAmazZpgQ
iNTdEl4A:fbvbYtt2CG7GE
LM6G4M5r:JvaytqY5iQT6s
7b5ZVtfC:1YOTiDP7QMu46
ssUBkol0:Xpcxzcpkea00M
o1JvNOqA:hS7KXYCVPVZzk
Wjg28Q7Z:txvKZULw6IGQY
9BYLeZqm:o.brY4eMwo83Y
iUyLbtL4:2BPsVeT6INCjU
gW8Ts5QB:ES7wPmhv5zWkc   # [exp:2011-08-07]
xeI2BlBF:5UkRPOAmmvYQ6   # [exp:2011-08-07]
DqgUnQq7:wODD.q7G6tBG.   # [exp:2011-08-07]
APr62acP:bwSs.xqxzVhf2   # [exp:2011-08-07]
m8eJuHgJ:UGnggpDogE0mE   # [exp:2011-08-07]
qbIv1jvM:TEtfj3paSfXI6   # [exp:2011-08-07]
StcEfJjw:Yadibnucypobw   # [exp:2011-08-07]
ZZ7XQnKZ:k50CN9MTktDZM   # [exp:2011-08-07]
J4WJgqzb:648PPzACrHXU2   # [exp:2011-08-07]
i19tECpj:PBRPcIwa/Xrh.   # [exp:2011-08-07]
w9LVCtgF:sE0f4YvY2ZbFo   # [exp:2011-07-27]
np6EplLx:o/RoBYsDNWOa.   # [exp:2011-07-27]
lH9BiLaD:qFIPpYcg/uwxc   # [exp:2011-07-27]
Tq7bxObg:NNWjVwLvgEM2.   # [exp:2011-07-27]
Sprx0OHu:XizJkBT4U9CiE   # [exp:2011-07-27]
2d8NI6Sl:05CBhrUFVC7oI   # [exp:2011-07-27]
2eUHSw2J:gFLMdtYDQ41Q2   # [exp:2011-07-27]
GrVq3bXQ:BOcpjHrkFp6Lg   # [exp:2011-07-27]
lhDpIeid:wb0yrVMlQ9k7.   # [exp:2011-07-27]
XqxThbtH:elmYRVI8nI45E   # [exp:2011-07-27]
EVu0Y1E6:5eyhQUfeV6ayQ   # Comment [exp:2011-07-31]
IMHJb2s5:O13UEZuE/33Zo   # Comment [exp:2011-07-31]
Px1ck3Me:M1A.BkDbP.55.   # Comment [exp:2011-07-31]
hgAXHHk5:hU0pejGjTMG9M   # Comment [exp:2011-07-31]
abcd:VIEzA5I5IxEMc   # Comment [exp:2011-07-31]

htgroups:
Code:
################################################
# Group: test
# Members: (unknown)
test: f5JJTB6g WJXn6PHy d9NME1OB 6kKq8P8G g2EMf77J fWegqo2e XmexEc5S vgxH2txy hFFBvK35 6aLtuE8h z2jSdCMC rVmIJGoI JbZVO119 vUp33XWQ Wo7rP4qW A4Fb6E4w S3UpACU4 m6zXlxTq cuq6Pgbp 0FI0jXp4

################################################
# Group: test2
# Members: (unknown)
test2: atcF6fv6 rWTTjVAn NDjgFwZs eepg7TvA HaCx3x2a Sda2JzbW q8I6KL9V 7l6MSr7b tjg3AjoW 1NuSi63A abc

################################################
# Group: test3
# Members: (unknown)
test3: abcd

################################################
# Group: group1
# Members: (unknown)
group1: i2KWJtCH 1pHpcx7B YGDu8AcS WaTE3DMx KBBG0dPq fpiaRmLl oAQKdEDq oqbkUmUI nB0LQE4Y c4HhXeFz

If user "abcd" was removed from htpasswd, then the text:
Code:
################################################
# Group: test3
# Members: (unknown)
test3: abcd

should be removed from htgroups.
 

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