getting date from timestamp

pavan_test · #1 (**permalink**) 09-28-2006

Hi All,

i have a time stamp. from that i am trying to awk to get the year, month and date.

TIME=20060614092446

DESIRED OUTPUT: 20060614

i am doing the following;

TIME=20060614092446
$ TimeStarted=`expr match '$TIME' '.*$......$'`
echo $TimeStarted

i am not getting any output. can anyone please suggest me.

thanks
mark

anbu23 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-28-2006

Code:

expr substr 20060614092446 1 8

or

Code:

expr match 20060614092446 '\(........\).*'

pavan_test · #3 (**permalink**) 09-28-2006

thanks anu

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