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Old 11-02-2006
napolayan napolayan is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by preethgideon
Hey thanks for the command but the string would be in the file say as the seventh field.
then simply add this to anbu's code
cat filename|while read line
do
echo $line|awk '{print $7}'|sed "s/\(.\{4\}\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)/\3-\2-\1 \4:\5:\6/">>filename2
done

Last edited by napolayan; 11-02-2006 at 04:21 AM.
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