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diff --git a/commands/cmdtest/regex.go b/commands/cmdtest/regex.go
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+++ b/commands/cmdtest/regex.go
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+package cmdtest
+
+import (
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+const ExpId = "\x07id\x07"
+const ExpHumanId = "\x07human-id\x07"
+const ExpTimestamp = "\x07timestamp\x07"
+const ExpISO8601 = "\x07iso8601\x07"
+
+const ExpOrgModeDate = "\x07org-mode-date\x07"
+
+// MakeExpectedRegex transform a raw string of an expected output into a regex suitable for testing.
+// Some markers like ExpId are available to substitute the appropriate regex for element that can vary randomly.
+func MakeExpectedRegex(input string) string {
+	var substitutes = map[string]string{
+		ExpId:          `[0-9a-f]{64}`,
+		ExpHumanId:     `[0-9a-f]{7}`,
+		ExpTimestamp:   `[0-9]{7,10}`,
+		ExpISO8601:     `\d{4}(-\d\d(-\d\d(T\d\d:\d\d(:\d\d)?(\.\d+)?(([+-]\d\d:\d\d)|Z)?)?)?)?`,
+		ExpOrgModeDate: `\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d [[:alpha:]]{3} \d\d:\d\d`,
+	}
+
+	escaped := []rune(regexp.QuoteMeta(input))
+
+	var result strings.Builder
+	var inSubstitute bool
+	var substitute strings.Builder
+
+	result.WriteString("^")
+
+	for i := 0; i < len(escaped); i++ {
+		r := escaped[i]
+		if !inSubstitute && r == '\x07' {
+			substitute.Reset()
+			substitute.WriteRune(r)
+			inSubstitute = true
+			continue
+		}
+		if inSubstitute && r == '\x07' {
+			substitute.WriteRune(r)
+			sub, ok := substitutes[substitute.String()]
+			if !ok {
+				panic("unknown substitute: " + substitute.String())
+			}
+			result.WriteString(sub)
+			inSubstitute = false
+			continue
+		}
+		if inSubstitute {
+			substitute.WriteRune(r)
+		} else {
+			result.WriteRune(r)
+		}
+	}
+
+	result.WriteString("$")
+
+	return result.String()
+}
diff --git a/commands/cmdtest/regex_test.go b/commands/cmdtest/regex_test.go
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+++ b/commands/cmdtest/regex_test.go
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+package cmdtest
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestMakeExpectedRegex(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		sub  string
+		text string
+	}{
+		{ExpId, "d96dc877077a571414168c946eb013035888715b561e75682cfae9ef785e3227"},
+		{ExpHumanId, "d96dc87"},
+		{ExpTimestamp, "1674368486"},
+		{ExpISO8601, "2023-01-22T07:21:26+01:00"},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.sub, func(t *testing.T) {
+			require.Regexp(t, MakeExpectedRegex(tc.text), tc.text)
+		})
+	}
+}