How to convert DDMMYYYY to DD MONTH YYYY in Unix

rspk_praveen · #1 (**permalink**) 08-07-2008

Hi
I am having date as a string in DDMMYYYY format(07082008) in a variable say cdate. I want to Convert it into DD Month YYYY format(7 August 2008). Could someone help. Thanks in Advance.

zaxxon · #2 (**permalink**) 08-07-2008

Check some threads below in here:
convert date format YYYYMMDD to MM/DD/YYYY

There are some ideas in there. Maybe you just add something like to convert the month's number, when separated by awk/substr, with the 3 characters you need.

fpmurphy · #3 (**permalink**) 08-07-2008

If you are using ksh93

Code:

$ cdate="07082008"
$ printf "%(%d %B %Y)T\n" $cdate
08 July 2008
$

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