Re: [rdiff-backup-users] listing files in an increment

[Joe Steele]

On 4/11/2013 4:04 PM, Scott Lair wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 15:15 -0400, Joe Steele wrote:
> > On 4/11/2013 12:50 PM, Scott Lair wrote:
> > > I wasn't having much luck with this so I thought I'd focus on the new
> > > files search. I have the following line in one of my stats files.
> > >
> > > opt/samba/m/ATX/2011/Years/2011/Support201304030936.log 1 13848 NA 0
> > >
> > > when I run
> > > zgrep -e ' 1 [0-9]+ NA 0$' rdiff-backup-data/blah_blah.gz
> > >
> > > I get no output.  Seems like it should work.  I don't know reg exp at
> > > all.
> >
> > Agreed -- should work.
> >
> > Try a progression of matches and see if there's a place where the
> > match begins to fail:
> >
> > zgrep -e 'opt/samba/m/ATX/2011/Years/2011/Support201304030936.log
> > 1 13848 NA 0' rdiff-backup-data/blah_blah.gz
> >
> > zgrep -e 'opt/samba/m/ATX/2011/Years/2011/Support201304030936.log
> > 1 13848 NA 0$' rdiff-backup-data/blah_blah.gz
> >
> > zgrep -e 'opt/samba/m/ATX/2011/Years/2011/Support201304030936.log
> > 1 [0-9]+ NA 0$' rdiff-backup-data/blah_blah.gz
>
> OK, it fails on the [0-9]+ substitution.... hmmmmm

In that case, I would try it without the "-e", and put a "\" in front of 
the "+":

zgrep 'opt/samba/m/ATX/2011/Years/2011/Support201304030936.log 1 [0-9]\+ 
NA 0$' rdiff-backup-data/blah_blah.gz

If that works, then forget the "-e" in the zgrep commands that I 
provided, and put a "\" in front of any of these 5 characters found in 
the patterns: "(){}+"

--Joe