Could always strip anything after the date numbers using regex and also use
a bunch of if/then statements to convert the month names to numbers.
On Jul 21, 2012 4:16 PM, "Simon Vass" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am trying to modify a nagios script which checks whois expiration dates.
> Unfortunately our very own CFI/I3C whois server produces dates in 'Expiry:
> 24th September, 2013' format. I would like a bash date format
> for my script.
>
> expiration=`whois $domain -h registry.co.ug|grep "Expiry:"| awk
> -F"Expiry:" '{print $2}'|cut -f 1`
> cleaned=`echo $expiration | sed 's/\,//g'`
> cleaned2=`echo $cleaned | sed 's/th//g'`
> expseconds=`date +%s --date="$cleaned2"`
> nowseconds=`date +%s`
> ((diffseconds=expseconds-nowseconds))
> expdays=$((diffseconds/86400))
>
>
> I added cleaned with strips the comma from a date, and cleaned2 which
> strips the th from 24th for example, but need a solution that will work for
> any date i.e. 2nd March, 2013 or 1st January, 2014.
>
> Any takers this would make a useful check_whois script so we can poll
> their servers from Nagios.
>
> Obviously CFI/I3C could make this all go away by using ISO dates instead.
> ;-)
>
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> Simon Vass
> Managing Director
> E-Tech Uganda Ltd
>
> http://www.etech.ug
> Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621
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>
>
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