1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to change a date from format dd-mmm-yyyy to mm/dd/yyyy. Is there a way to do this with sed or do you have to write a case statement to convert JAN to 01? Thanks (9 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to convert the date field from dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy/mm/dd in unix my script will generate text file which have two fields one is date and another is name of the server for example this is sample date which I have to sort based on older to newer date the problem is when I found out sort will... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file which has 100k+ records like this abc,05-JUN-1974,def,lkj,aaa def,11-SEP-1975,ghj,dis,dea I want to convert ex 05-JUN-1974 to 06/05/1974 Please help me with awk script to convert the whole file into MM-DD-YYYY Thank you! (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all I have some pipe-separated data in the form: 5/12/2008 00:00:00|31/1/2009 00:00:00|SOMESTUFF|OTHERSTUFF 12/31/2008 00:00:00|15/1/2009 00:00:00|MORESTUFF|REMAININGSTUFF 1/1/1023 00:00:00|16/5/2047 00:00:00|THEREST|YETMORE I need to zero-pad the single-digit days and months, using... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am learning PERL for one of the projects, and in one of these scripts, I read a flat text file and print in the terminal. The problem is, the text file has a date field. The format is yyyymmdd. I need to display this as dd-mon-yyyy. Any ideas to do this? Thanks a lot for the... (9 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

(Attention: Green PHP newbie !) I have an online inquiry form, delivering a date in the form yyyy/mm/dd to my feedback form. If the content passes several checks, the form sends an e-mail to me. All works fine. I just would like to receive the date in the form dd/mm/yyyy. I tried with some code,... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I need to convert date from YYYYMMDD to DD-MON-YYYY e.g 20111214 to 14-Dec-2011 Please help. (17 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a problem with Date format in my code. 1st I am trying to convert today's date to yesterday's using YESTERDAY3=`perl -e '@y=localtime(time()-86400); printf "%04d/%02d/%02d",$y+1900,$y+1,$y;$y;'` And once it is done I am trying to using the yesterday date in a grep command to... (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I've seen a lot of posts on this and have tried the following: echo 1257000000| perl -e '($d,$m,$y)=(localtime(time-86400));$m+=1;$y+=1900;printf "$y/$m/$d\n";' But I am unable to convert a past Epoch date into a format such as YYYY/MM/DD or MM/DD/YYYY. I am using bash and don't know... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am getting output of YYYY-MM-DD and want to change this to DD/MM/YYYY. When am running the query in 'Todd' to_date(column_name,'DD/MM/YYYY') am getting the required o/p of DD/MM/YYYY, But when am executing the same query(Netezza) in linux server(bash) am getting the output of YYYY-MM-DD file... (3 Replies)