On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:16:22PM -0400, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
>
> If predictability is highly valued, then I'd like to hear more...
$ for i in `jot 10 0`; do echo -n " $i - " ; whois enom.com | grep -i '13:45' ; done
0 - Registered through- Sun Sep 21 2003 13:45:09
1 - Expiration date: Sun Sep 21 2003 13:45:09
2 - Expiration date: 09/21/03 13:45:09
3 - Expires: Sun Sep 21 2003 13:45:09
4 - Expires: 09/21/03 13:45:09
5 - Registered through- 09/21/03 13:45:09
6 - Expires: 09/21/03 13:45:09
7 - Expires: Sun Sep 21 2003 13:45:09
8 - Expires: 09/21/03 13:45:09
9 - Expires: 09/21/03 13:45:09
$
See, this is just stupid.
Now, in order to gather expiry dates from Enom, I have to allocate all
of ten minutes to write a few extra lines of code. Big whoop. For all
the effort Enom has gone to in order to obfuscate expiry dates, they're
*still* in easily recognized formats.
Heck, in bourne shell, using /bin/date's implementation of strptime():
whois $enomdomain | egrep '^(Exp|Reg)i.*[:-] .*[0-9]' | sed -E 's/^[^:-][:-] //' |
while read line ; do
if echo "$line" | grep -q '^[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9] ' ; then
fmt='%m/%d/%y'
elif echo "$line" | grep -q '^[A-Z][a-z][a-z] [A-Z][a-z][a-z] ' ; then
fmt='%a %b %d %Y'
elif echo "$line" | grep -q '^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-' ; then
fmt='%Y-%m-%d'
else
fmt=""
fi
test -t 0 && echo "> fmt='$fmt' line='$line'"
if [ -n "$fmt" ]; then
date -jf "$fmt" "$line" '+%Y-%m-%d'
fi
done
Ross, if I had a choice, I'd rather you fix the ticketing software than
devote any effort to obfuscating whois data.
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