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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Date Function Post 302181133 by charandevu on Wednesday 2nd of April 2008 07:28:03 AM
Old 04-02-2008
Date Function
Hi,

My file format is:

E102,0,21-04-2007,0,2/25/1994,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620
E103,0,21/04/2007,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620
E104,0,04/21/2007,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620
E105,0,21-APR-2007,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620
E106,0,21-APR-07,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620
E107,0,21-04-07,0,2/25/1994,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620
E108,0,21/04/07,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620
E109,0,04/21/07,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620

I want to convert any type of date format into 'YYYYMMDD' in Unix.

If anyone knows the coding pls help me in this.

Quick response would be helpful.

Thanks,
Charan
 

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NAME

       restore-trash - Restore for Command line trash utility.

SYNOPSIS

       restore-trash

DESCRIPTION

       Use  for  restore  a  trashed file or directory, in the original path.  This command is a part of trash-cli package that provides a command
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EXAMPLES

       $ restore-trash
       0 2007-08-30 12:36:00 /home/andrea/foo
       1 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar
       2 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar2
       3 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo2
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SEE ALSO

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