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What would be the best way to replace all instances of...

09/26/2005
with
20050926

There are no spaces between the the date and the preceeding and following data. example lines looks like...

snp01|NAME/OF/A/GROUP|09/26/2005081343|502

the 081343 is the time without colons.

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ruby -pe'sub(%r!(\d\d)/(\d\d)/(\d{4})!,"\\3\\1\\2")'
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Could you explain that more...

I'm using the korn shell. How would I use ruby inside a korn script.
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the sed command
I tried using the sed command, but it's doesn't do anything...

sed -e 's/$date/$newDate/g' $ofile > test.txt
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I tried using the sed command, but it's doesn't do anything...

sed -e 's/$date/$newDate/g' $ofile > test.txt
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sed -e "s#$date#$newDate#g" $ofile > test.txt
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that sed command is not working for me...

I was going to try using this to do it, but it won't pass the variable to it...

/bin/echo '%s/^/"$newDate "/g\nwq!' | ex - $ofile
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