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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Most vexing: Sed or Awk scripting for date conversion needed Post 302554360 by alister on Sunday 11th of September 2011 07:28:42 PM
Old 09-11-2011
Hello, Astrocloud:

I think the easiest solution is some AWK pixie dust. The following one-liner not only shuffles the date components, but it makes certain to zero-pad them (1 to 01, 8 to 08, etc):
Code:
awk -F'/| ' '{printf("%.4d-%.2d-%.2d %s\n", $3, $1, $2, $4)}'

Regards and welcome to the forum,
Alister
 

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tzselect

TZSELECT(8)						    Linux System Administration 					       TZSELECT(8)

NAME

       tzselect - select a timezone

SYNOPSIS

       tzselect

DESCRIPTION

       The  tzselect  program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting timezone description to standard
       output.	The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable.

       All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.

ENVIRONMENT

       AWK    Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).

       TZDIR  Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default: /usr/share/zoneinfo).

FILES

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	      Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.

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SEE ALSO

       tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)

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