Provided by: dateutils_0.2.5-1_amd64 
NAME
dgrep - Find date or time matches in input stream
SYNOPSIS
dgrep [OPTION]... EXPRESSION
DESCRIPTION
dgrep 0.2.5
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 representation (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.
-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 specifier string, that value will be used.
-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.
Group: op
Operations can be specified by options as well. In all cases EXPRESSION must be a
date/time and no concatenation is through conjunction (`&&') or disjunction (`||')
operators is possible.
This serves solely as a means of convenience, e.g. the dtest tool has a similar
syntax.
--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.
EXAMPLES
% dgrep 2012-03-01 <<EOF
2012-02-28
2012-02-29
2012-03-01
2012-03-02
EOF
2012-03-01
% dgrep '<2012-03-01' <<EOF
2012-02-28
2012-02-29
2012-03-01
2012-03-02
EOF
2012-02-28
2012-02-29
% dgrep =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
% dgrep =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
% dgrep -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
% dgrep '>=12:00:00' <<EOF
fileA 11:59:58
fileB 11:59:59 leap second?
fileNOON 12:00:00 new version
fileC 12:03:12
EOF
fileNOON 12:00:00 new version
fileC 12:03:12
% dgrep -o '>=12:00:00' <<EOF
fileA 11:59:58
fileB 11:59:59 leap second?
fileNOON 12:00:00 new version
fileC 12:03:12
EOF
12:00:00
12:03:12
% dgrep 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
% dgrep '<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
% dgrep 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
% dgrep '<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
FORMAT SPECS
Format specs in dateutils are similar to posix' strftime().
However, due to a broader range of supported calendars dateutils must employ 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)
%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, first day of week is Sun (range 00 to 53)
%V The ISO week count, first 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, first 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
%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 second (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 Treat date as business date
By design dates before 1601-01-01 are not supported.
For conformity here is a list of calendar spec names and their meaning:
ymd %Y-%m-%d
ymcw %Y-%m-%c-%w
ywd %rY-W%V-%u
bizda %Y-%m-%db
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 dgrep is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dgrep
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info (dateutils)dgrep
should give you access to the complete manual.