09/13   Go buy the Uninvited's self-titled "debut" CD.  I've seen it at
        Rasputin's.  Make it so.  If you have any questions about the band,
        you can direct them to me!!!   --sowings
        \_ If you gave them out free, I might be willing to use one as a
           frisbee or to keep my desk from getting drink stains.

09/13   I'm with you in Rockland

09/13   Exciting full-time position at a Berkeley Internet start-up. For
        details, please see the file /csua/pub/jobs/getawayzone. If you
        have any questions, email me at bkong@soda.berkeley.edu. --bkong
        \_ Oh boy, not another one of these again.
                \_ Huh?

09/13   Studio for sublet for semester or longer.
        http://soda.berkeley.edu/~hitran/sublet.html -hitran
        Please don't delete this.
        \_ try putting it in /csua/pub/housing
        \_ Learn how to make a real web page, not just using MS crap that
           puts in IMG src="file:///C:/My%20Documents/rent/floorplan.gif"
            (like we can see gifs on your stupid winblows machine)
        \_ And while you're at it, learn how to spell

9/13    How do you write a regular expression to NOT include a certain
        string wihtout grep -v... say I was to no include Tue but want Thu
        so ^[^T] wont work. I dont have to do [^T][^u][^e] do I?
        \_ [^T][^u][^e] won't work -- that doesn't match Thu.  If you want
           to match any three-character sequence except Tue with standard
           regexps, you have to do something like this: [^T]..|.[^u].|..[^e]
           (That reads: anything whose first character isn't T, or whose
           second character isn't u, etc.)  If you're using perl, it's much
           easier: (?!Tue) will match anything that isn't Tue.

           There might also be an easier way.  What are you trying to do?
           \_ shouldnt it be [^T].. & .[^u]. & ..[^e]??  if you use or,
              you wouldnt get a match for Thu since it starts with T?
              \_ The caret inside brackets means "not": [^T] matches any
                 character that is not a T.
                 \_ therefore, Thu will not be matched since it starts
                    with 'T'??
                    \_ No, because of the "|" ("or") operator: it will be
                       matched because its second character is not "u" (.[^u].)
                       and because those patterns were joined with or
                       operators.  Compare "a|b" -- it matches "b" even though
                       "b" is not "a".  It's really a clever application of
                       De Morgan's law to regexps.
                        \_ oh yeah...duh...stupid me... thanks.
         \_ or if you specifically know  you're always matching
            the output of `date`, for example, you could just use '^..[^e]'
            seeing as how that does not match Mon|Wed|Thr|Fri|Sat|Sun
                \_I am wondering about a general solution. Say I want
                to grep "last" for everyone logging on Tue but NOT from
                http://berkeley.edu. Can I do that with one egrep and not
                last | grep Tue | grep -v http://berkeley.edu?
                \_ Not easily.  What's wrong with calling grep twice?
                      \_Because I need to pass a single regular expression
                        to a differnt program.  I am only using grep to test
                        the regular expression for the other program.  I cannot
                        call the other program twice.
                        \_ This is too general. Why not use awk or perl to
                           pass the correct arguments to the second
                           program? Why do you want to pass a regexp? --dim
                           \_ I am not a UNIX newbie.  I thought about using
                                two different regular expressions but that just
                                isn't an option.  It has to be done in one pass.
                                \_ You sound like a newbie.  Why can't you use
                                   awk of perl as dim suggested?  -not dim
                                        \-you are begging the question. i can
                                certainly think of cases where you cant pipe to
                                to multiple greps. say you are doing an fgrep
                                type thing and have a file of regexps, one per
                                line. --psb
                                \_ Suppose I invent some totally arbitary and
                                   unrelated case to support my meaningless
                                   point?  Was it an African or a European
                                   swallow?  Who cares?
                                   \_ the swallow. Or, alternatively, the
                                      "swallow-ee".
                                        \-you know i talked to the person who
                                        asked the question. my example is
                                        actually pretty close to the real
                                        problem --psb
                                        \_ Exactly.  As I saifd, African or
                                           European?
                                \_ Is there a regular expression for a valid
                                UNIX UID?  That is faster than testing if it
                                is between 0 and 65000 on each line, isn't it?
                                \_ define "valid UNIX UID"
                                        \_ How about regexp for a number
                                        between 0 and 65678?
                                                \_ Recent Solaris versions
                                                   support UIDS > 64K -ax

09/08   Next CSUA General Meeting:  Mon. Sept. 14th.   5:30pm
                                    337 Soda Hall               -Mikeh

9/13   http://www.theonion.com/onion3406/burningman.html

9/14    Anybody have a copy of Word 2 or 6 for win 3.1 they are not using?
        It's not for me, so I don't wanna be hearing all thos anti-MS crap.
        - johndkim
        \_ anti-MS crap is an oxymoron.  MS crap on the otherhand...
        \_ Where do you want to go today?