[ale] regex question?

[Geoffrey]

grep 03/[0123][0-9]/02

Will locate any date in the month of 03 for year 02.

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> Got one just annoying me.  It's going to be something simple I'm sure.
>>From a ksh command line I'm executing a set of commands:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/doreport | grep 03/1[34]/02
> 
> obviously to limit it based on date.  This works great when the date is
> 13 and 14, but what's the best way to do the grep for something like the
> 19 and 20 or even 31 and 01?  I tried [13|14] and that doesn't work, I'd
> rather keep it short and not have an egrep '03/14/02|03/15/02' as that
> can be a bit ugly for some juniors I'm trying to teach.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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