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Old 04-03-2007
handling date field

Hi,

Is there any way we could change the date format listed below...

date I get is 03302007 (MMDDYYYY)
I need to change it to 20070330 (YYYYMMDD)

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 04-03-2007
Code:
echo '03302007' | sed 's#\(..\)\(..\)\(....\)#\3\1\2#'

# 3  
Old 04-03-2007
If you are wanting the current system date in that format...

date +"%Y%M%d"

will produce...

20070903
# 4  
Old 04-03-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by mgirinath
Is there any way we could change the date format listed below...

date I get is 03302007 (MMDDYYYY)
I need to change it to 20070330 (YYYYMMDD)

Separate the components, then put them back together in the order you want:

Code:
date=03302007
temp=${date#??}
month=${date%"$temp"}
day=${temp%????}
year=${temp#??}
newdate=$year$month$day

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