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Old 08-13-2012
Replace the nth column date as MM/DD/YYYY

Hi,
I need some unix command to replace the following thing.
Code:
cat test.dat
1234|test|8/19/2009|8/20/2009|test
1234|test|8/9/2009|8/21/2009|test
1234|test|8/1/2009|8/2/2009|test

after processing
Code:
1234|test|08/19/2009|08/20/2009|test
1234|test|08/09/2009|08/21/2009|test
1234|test|08/01/2009|08/02/2009|test


Last edited by Scott; 08-13-2012 at 05:04 AM.. Reason: Use code tags, please...
 

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