Ok I sussed it.

expiration=`whois $domain -h registry.co.ug|grep "Expiry:"| awk -F"Expiry:" 
'{print $2}'|cut -f 1|sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//'| cut -c1-2,5-|sed -e 's/\,//'`





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----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Vass" <[email protected]>
To: "Uganda Linux User Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 21 July, 2012 5:51:15 PM
Subject: Re: [LUG] Scripting Help

Okello,

Yeah I am trying the same thing in perl using parsedatetime. 





Simon Vass 
Managing Director 
E-Tech Uganda Ltd 

http://www.etech.ug 
Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 
email: [email protected] 
skype: e-techservicedesk 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Okello" <[email protected]>
To: "Uganda Linux User Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 21 July, 2012 5:41:11 PM
Subject: Re: [LUG] Scripting Help

On Saturday 21 July 2012 15:55:12 Simon Vass wrote:
> I considered using Python and Perl, but would have to rewrite the rest of
> the script as well and am feeling lazy. Plus I can't imagine with a sed or
> awk it isn't possible?

it is possible, but in perl there is some library that 'eats' with one functon 
nearly every date/time format. Why invent the wheel two times then?

Do not rewrite the script, use $(perl -e "...") within it.

Okello


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