UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi,

I'm trying to compare Actual.html with a baseline.html
However, everytime it fails b'coz of the timestamp differences
between the two. So, thought of stripping off the timestamp
from both the *html files before comparing using below sed
command over Solaris Unix platform:
s#z):[^/]*/#z):DATE/#g
s#y):[^/]*/#y):DATE/#g
But, its not working for me and doubt if '):' is causing the
problem. Could someone pls pls help me in getting around
this issue. I'm stuck forever without knowing how to tweak.

Pls help it little urgent,
Latha.

would it be possible for you to post two sample lines from your file and how you want the output to be...

Hi Mahendra!

Below are the 3 lines from the *html file
------------------------------------------------------------------
Date Mask 1 (yyyy.MM.dd G HH:mm:ss z): 2006.04.12 AD 20:17:17 IST
Date Mask 2 (MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss z): 04/12/2006 20:17:17 IST
Date Mask 3 (MM/dd/yy): 04/12/06
------------------------------------------------------------------
to be replaced with
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Date Mask 1 (yyyy.MM.dd G HH:mm:ss z): DATE
Date Mask 2 (MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss z): DATE
Date Mask 3 (MM/dd/yy): DATE
----------------------------------------------------------------

Any clues?

sed 's#):.*$#): DATE#g' <filename> will work...

Iam bit confused why you have used / after DATE ?