Re: using -D to exclude dates

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>I have been trying to use the -D command to exclude dates, whenever I
>get multiple, nonconsecutive days to exclude I get an error saying no
>matching data.  Below is an example of my input line.
>
>% wwwstat -d '([7-9]|1[0-3])' -D '([1-6]|1[4-9]|2[0-9])'
>LOGFILENAME.LOG ANOTHER.LOG  > AP7TO13.HTM

You need to be careful in using the right whitespace, as is
demonstrated in the manual examples.  Keep in mind that you
are doing a regular expression match against the date in the
same format as that given in the requests-by-date table.  E.g,

     Apr  1 1997
     Apr  7 1997
     Apr 10 1997
     Apr 30 1997

and thus the command needs to be

   wwwstat -d ' ( [7-9]|1[0-3]) '

Note the two spaces in front of the single digit days, and the one
space after all days.  You do not want to use -D in this situation.

>P.S Are there any more detailed instructions on how to set up this
>program, the manual is a good reference once you know how to use the
>program, but does not help for getting started.  I have it installed and
>am running manual log files, but I haven't a clue how to set it up to
>run automatically.

Nope.  I have never been in that position, so I wouldn't know what to
write (and don't have the time anyway).  Contributions are welcome.

 ...Roy T. Fielding
    Department of Information & Computer Science    (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
    University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3425    fax:+1(714)824-1715
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/

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