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DATEGREP(1)			  User Commands 		     DATEGREP(1)

NAME
     dategrep - Grep standard input for lines that match EXPRESSION.

SYNOPSIS
     dategrep [OPTION]...  EXPRESSION

DESCRIPTION
     Grep standard input for lines that match EXPRESSION.

     EXPRESSION  may  be  date/times  prefixed	with an operator `<', `<=', `=',
     `>=', `>', `!=', `<>' (if omitted defaults to `='), which will match  lines
     with date/times which are older, older-equal, equal, newer-equal, newer, or
     not equal respectively.

     EXPRESSION  may  also  be	format specifiers infixed by above operators and
     suffixed by a value (e.g. `%a="Wed"') which matches lines whose  %a  repre-
     sentation (weekday name abbreviated) is "Wed".

     EXPRESSION  may  be statements as described above concatenated through `&&'
     (for conjunction) or `||' (disjunction), both of which may be parenthesised
     as per usual to change precedence (`&&' goes over `||').

     If multiple date/times occur on the same line and any one of them	fulfills
     the criteria then the line is considered a match and will be output.

     Note:
       Operations can be specified by options (--eq, --gt, ...) as well.
       This  serves solely as a means of convenience, e.g. the datetest tool has
     a
       similar syntax.

     Recognized OPTIONs:

     -h, --help
	    Print help and exit

     -V, --version
	    Print version and exit

     -q, --quiet
	    Suppress message about date/time and duration parser errors.

     -i, --input-format=STRING...
	    Input format, can be used multiple times.  Each  date/time	will  be
	    passed to the input format parsers in the order they are given, if a
	    date/time  can be read successfully with a given input format speci-
	    fier string, that value will be used.

     -b, --base=DT
	    For underspecified input use DT as a fallback  to  fill  in  missing
	    fields.  Also used for ambiguous format specifiers to position their
	    range  on  the  absolute  time line.  Must be a date/time in ISO8601
	    format.  If omitted defaults to the current date/time.

     -e, --backslash-escapes
	    Enable interpretation of backslash escapes in the output  and  input
	    format specifier strings.

     -o, --only-matching
	    Show only the part of a line matching DATE.

     -v, --invert-match
	    Select non-matching lines.

     --from-locale=LOCALE
	    Interpret  dates on stdin or the command line as coming from the lo-
	    cale LOCALE, this would only affect month and weekday names as input
	    formats have to be specified explicitly.

     --from-zone=ZONE
	    Consider date/times on stdin as coming from the zone ZONE,	default:
	    UTC.

     -z, --zone=ZONE
	    Consider  date/times in EXPRESSION as coming from the zone ZONE, de-
	    fault: UTC.

     --eq   Lines match when date/times are equal to EXPRESSION.

     --ne   Lines match when date/times are not the same as EXPRESSION.

     --gt   Lines match when date/times are newer than EXPRESSION.

     --lt   Lines match when date/times are older than EXPRESSION.

     --ge   Lines match when date/times are newer than or equal EXPRESSION.

     --le   Lines match when date/times are older than or equal EXPRESSION.

     --nt   Lines match when date/times are newer than or equal EXPRESSION.

     --ot   Lines match when date/times are older than or equal EXPRESSION.

FORMAT SPECS
     Format specs in dateutils are similar to posix' strftime().

     However, due to a broader range of supported calendars dateutils  must  em-
     ploy different rules.

     Date specs:
       %a  The abbreviated weekday name
       %A  The full weekday name
       %_a The weekday name shortened to a single character (MTWRFAS)
       %b  The abbreviated month name
       %B  The full month name
       %_b The month name shortened to a single character (FGHJKMNQUVXZ)
       %c  The count of the weekday within the month (range 00 to 05)
       %C  The count of the weekday within the year (range 00 to 53)
       %d  The day of the month, 2 digits (range 00 to 31)
       %D  The day of the year, 3 digits (range 000 to 366)
       %F  Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (ymd's canonical format)
       %g  ISO week date year without the century (range 00 to 99)
       %G  ISO week date year including the century
       %j  Equivalent to %D
       %m  The month in the current calendar (range 00 to 19)
       %Q  The quarter of the year (range Q1 to Q4)
       %q  The number of the quarter (range 01 to 04)
       %s  The number of seconds since the Epoch.
       %u  The weekday as number (range 01 to 07, Sunday being 07)
       %U  The week count,  day of week is Sun (range 00 to 53)
       %V  The ISO week count,	day of week is Mon (range 01 to 53)
       %w  The weekday as number (range 00 to 06, Sunday being 00)
       %W  The week count,  day of week is Mon (range 00 to 53)
       %y  The year without a century (range 00 to 99)
       %Y  The year including the century
       %_y The year shortened to a single digit
       %Z  The zone offset in hours and minutes (HH:MM) with
	   a preceding sign (+ for offsets east of UTC, - for offsets
	   west of UTC)

       %Od The day as roman numerals
       %Om The month as roman numerals
       %Oy The two digit year as roman numerals
       %OY The year including the century as roman numerals

       %rs In time systems whose Epoch is different from the unix Epoch, this
	   selects the number of seconds since then.
       %rY In calendars with years that don't coincide with the Gregorian
	   years, this selects the calendar's year.

       %dth  The day of the month as an ordinal number, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
       %mth  The month of the year as an ordinal number, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.

       %db The business day of the month (since last month's ultimo)
       %dB Number of business days until this month's ultimo

     Time specs:
       %H  The hour of the day using a 24h clock, 2 digits (range 00 to 23)
       %I  The hour of the day using a 12h clock, 2 digits (range 01 to 12)
       %M  The minute (range 00 to 59)
       %N  The nanoseconds (range 000000000 to 999999999)
       %p  The string AM or PM, noon is PM and midnight is AM.
       %P  Like %p but in lowercase
       %S  The	(range 00 to 60, 60 is for leap seconds)
       %T  Equivalent to %H:%M:%S

     General specs:
       %n  A newline character
       %t  A tab character
       %%  A literal % character

     Modifiers:
       %O  Modifier to turn decimal numbers into Roman numerals
       %r  Modifier to turn units into real units
       th  Suffix, read and print ordinal numbers
       b   Suffix, treat days as business days

     By design dates before 1601-01-01 are not supported.

     For conformity here is a list of calendar designators and their correspond-
     ing format string:
       ymd     %Y-%m-%d
       ymcw    %Y-%m-%c-%w
       ywd     %rY-W%V-%u
       bizda   %Y-%m-%db
       lilian	  n/a
       ldn	  n/a
       julian	  n/a
       jdn	  n/a

     These designators can be used as output format string, moreover, @code{lil-
     ian}/@code{ldn} and @code{julian}/@code{jdn} can also be used as input for-
     mat string.

EXAMPLES
       $ dategrep 2012-03-01 <<EOF
       2012-02-28
       2012-02-29
       2012-03-01
       2012-03-02
       EOF
       2012-03-01
       $

       $ dategrep '<2012-03-01' <<EOF
       2012-02-28
       2012-02-29
       2012-03-01
       2012-03-02
       EOF
       2012-02-28
       2012-02-29
       $

       $ dategrep \!=2012-03-01 <<EOF
       2012-02-28
       2012-02-29
       2012-03-01
       2012-03-02
       EOF
       2012-02-28
       2012-02-29
       2012-03-02
       $

       $ dategrep =2012-03-01 <<EOF
       Feb  2012-02-28
       Feb  2012-02-29	   leap day
       Mar  2012-03-01
       Mar  2012-03-02
       EOF
       Mar  2012-03-01
       $

       $ dategrep -o \<2012-03-01 <<EOF
       Feb  2012-02-28
       Feb  2012-02-29	   leap day
       Mar  2012-03-01
       Mar  2012-03-02
       EOF
       2012-02-28
       2012-02-29
       $

       $ dategrep '>=12:00:00' <<EOF
       fileA	 11:59:58
       fileB	 11:59:59  leap ?
       fileNOON  12:00:00  new version
       fileC	 12:03:12
       EOF
       fileNOON  12:00:00  new version
       fileC	 12:03:12
       $

       $ dategrep -o '>=12:00:00' <<EOF
       fileA	 11:59:58
       fileB	 11:59:59  leap ?
       fileNOON  12:00:00  new version
       fileC	 12:03:12
       EOF
       12:00:00
       12:03:12
       $

       $ dategrep 2012-03-01 <<EOF
       2012-02-28T10:00:00
       2012-02-29T10:00:00
       2012-03-01T10:00:00
       2012-03-02T10:00:00
       EOF
       2012-03-01T10:00:00
       $

       $ dategrep '<2012-03-01' <<EOF
       2012-02-28T10:00:00
       2012-02-29T10:00:00
       2012-03-01T10:00:00
       2012-03-02T10:00:00
       EOF
       2012-02-28T10:00:00
       2012-02-29T10:00:00
       $

       $ dategrep 2012-03-01T10:00:00 <<EOF
       2012-02-28T10:00:00
       2012-02-29T10:00:00
       2012-03-01T10:00:00
       2012-03-02T10:00:00
       EOF
       2012-03-01T10:00:00
       $

       $ dategrep '<2012-03-01T14:00:00' <<EOF
       2012-02-28T10:00:00
       2012-02-29T10:00:00
       2012-03-01T10:00:00
       2012-03-02T10:00:00
       EOF
       2012-02-28T10:00:00
       2012-02-29T10:00:00
       2012-03-01T10:00:00
       $

AUTHOR
     Written by Sebastian Freundt <freundt@fresse.org>

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to: https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils/issues

SEE ALSO
     The  full documentation for dategrep is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
     the info and dategrep programs are properly installed  at	your  site,  the
     command

	    info (dateutils)dategrep

     should give you access to the complete manual.

dateutils 0.4.1 		  December 2016 		     DATEGREP(1)

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