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

[Geoff Wing <gcw@xxxxxxx>]

Timothy Luoma <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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."

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

Regards,
-- 
Geoff Wing