date format

ali560045 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-25-2008

i have a date format like this for example

24JAN2008

a=`date+"%d%b%Y"`--------this gives me date format 24Jan2008.

i want Jan and not JAN and likewise...this is just an example.....likewise there are so many months in caps .......

help me in this

anchal_khare · #2 (**permalink**) 01-25-2008

date | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" will give all the value in lowercase.

for ur case...

echo 24JAN2008 | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" will gice the output as 24jan2008

panknil · #3 (**permalink**) 01-25-2008

Dear ali560045,
if you dont mind can you please explain ur problem little bit clearely? it will be easier to give you a proper solution.
Thanks,
Regards,
Pankaj

V3l0 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-25-2008

Code:

date1=28JAN2008
date2=$(echo $date1 | sed 's/'$(echo $date1 | cut -c4-5)'/'$(echo $date1 | cut -c4-5 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')'/')

echo date1=$date1
echo date2=$date2

Result:

Code:

date1=28JAN2008
date2=28Jan2008

Hope it'll help

fpmurphy · #5 (**permalink**) 01-25-2008

Using sed

Code:

echo $date | sed '
h
s/[0-9]\{1,2\}.\(..\).*/\1/
y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/
G
s/\(.*\)\n\([0-9]\{1,2\}.\)\(..\)\(.*\)/\2\1\4/
'

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