On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Binand Raj S wrote:
> You can ask date to print output in a comparable format; like
>
> if [ $( date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S' ) -gt 20001226000000 ]; then
> echo 'Oops! Forgot all about Christmas presents'
> fi
hi,
thanks, I did not know one could select the format in which the date is
printed. But actually I was interested in parsing the dates in mbox.
Anyway else than regex parsing ?
sreangsu
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