Re: trying to match yyyy-mm-dd what am I missing?

[Timothy Luoma <lists@tntluoma.com>]

On Sep 3, 2005, at 9:04 AM, Geoff Wing wrote:
> Timothy Luoma <lists@tntluoma.com> typed:
> : I am trying to match all folders in the CWD which are in the format
> : YYYY-MM-DD.
> :          if [ "$i" = 2[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9] ]
>
> This gets expanded to all the directories matching it.  See
> "CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS:  ....
>  Normal shell expansion is performed on the file, string and pattern
>  arguments, but the result of each expansion is constrained to be a
>  single word, similar to the effect of double quotes."

I could have read that 1,000 times and not understood that it applied  
to my situation.

> You're trying to match each against (in your case with MARK_DIRS set)
> "2005-08-24/ 2005-08-26/ 2005-08-27/ 2005-08-28/ 2005-08-29/"

> Try a different solution, e.g.:
>
> for i in *(^M)
> do
>
> if [ -d "$i" ]; then
>      case $i in
>         2[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]) echo "YES: $i";;
>         *) echo "no: $i" ;;
>      esac
>
> fi
>
> done

Ah!  That works!  Thanks.


I am using this, together with the previous script about getting the  
creation date, to easily sort folders with lots of stuff in them into  
folders with contents organized by creation date.

Thanks!
TjL