please help - Shell Programming and Scripting

rajan_ka1 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-26-2005

Dear friends

time is like this 23:23:20

Now i want to read like this
2323 means i dont want colon between hours and minutes and i should leave seconds

so at last i want 2323 from above mentioned time

i think awk will solve my problem

please unix shell script syntax

urgent

regards

rajan

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 10-26-2005

Code:

echo "23:23:23" | awk -F":" '{ print $1$2 }'

rajan_ka1 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-26-2005

thank u vino

u served my purpose

regards

rajan

matrixmadhan · #4 (**permalink**) 10-26-2005

one more way,

echo "23:23:20" | sed -e 's/://;s/:.*//'

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