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change date format using shell
Name: vmtrt Date: February 25, 2005 at 14:45:03 Pacific OS: HP-UX CPU/Ram: 256 ram
Comment:
Hi all, I am trying to change the date format from MM/DD/YYYY to MMDDYYYY in the fixed width file using shell. dates are in fields 19-28 and 29-38.
Name: gurubit Date: March 2, 2005 at 04:32:43 Pacific
Reply:
I guess you want to format the date in your required format using the shell script. You need to use date '+%m' - Month date '+%d' - Day Parse the date '+%c' and get the year. you can use the 'cut' command and get the reqd. field.
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