Try: fgrep -w -f dates part2 && exit 0
Lubos On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a crude script that includes line like below, to look for dates in > HTML only email: > > .. > fgrep -f dates part2 && exit 0 > .. > > 'dates' has dates like so: > 1/10/2014 > 12/10/2014 > > that works well, EXCEPT, '1/10/2014' will match 1/10/2014, good, BUT also > 11/10/2014 and 21, and 31, not good > > HTML mail has format like so: > Date Time: </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">1/10/2014 1400 Tuesday</td></tr> > > or > > Date Time: </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">11/10/2014 1400 Tuesday</td></tr> > > so, should I have dates in such format in my 'dates' file: > rowspan="1">1/10/2014 > rowspan="1">12/10/2014 > > do I need to quote/escape the '>' in the text, how? > or is there a better way to deal with this? > > thanks > V > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
