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regex to extract date from the file name

athorat
Communicator

Hi

we are using fs_notification and monitoring a specific path.
I have a field called path which has the following values.
Now I have to extract the date from the name of the file which is 2016-03-28 for the following files and then do a count of those values.

    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_70_2016-03-28-03-30-07_353466071554972_NA_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_70_2016-03-28-00-47-08_353466071286872_1HGCR2F5XDA159398_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-23-38-13_353466070336173_5J6YH28776L027013_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-23-11-04_353466070738055_JHMES96664S000240_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-22-23-29_353466070290842_1FTRW12557FB57292_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-20-36-26_354235059078372_1GNDV23LX6D194324_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-20-31-06_354235059637177_JTDBR32E170131585_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-20-27-01_354235059626014_2GKFLSE39D6131090_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-20-14-59_354235059651772_3FAHP06Z48R221560_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-20-08-00_354235057942819_1G1ZT64885F132289_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-19-50-45_354235058343207_JHLRM3H51CC010877_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-19-20-32_353466070121963_1J4FT28B19D178678_0_0.zip
    /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_709_2016-03-28-18-23-14_354235059577712_5FNYF28407B037209_0_0.zip
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sundareshr
Legend

This should get you the date

rex "_(?<date>\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})-"
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niemesrw
Path Finder

I'm definitely not the best with regex, but maybe something like this?

rex field=path "\_\w+\_(?<date>\w+-\w+-\w+)"
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athorat
Communicator

Sample Event :

Fri Apr  8 18:20:42 2016 action=add, path="/ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_712_2016-03-28-21-19-03_354235057942819_1G1ZT64885F132289_0_0.zip", isdir=0, size=18443, gid=0, uid=0, modtime="Fri Apr  8 18:20:41 2016", mode="rw-r--r--", hash=
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