Thanks for your reply.... this is working for the data I gave... but in actual file i also have strings with spaces and it could have : / as well.... but file is comma separated.
eg:
Input file:
Need output:
Please advise. Sorry for not giving complete data before!
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-25-2013 at 03:51 AM..
Reason: code tags
I want to chnage the date format from the file format like below to
WT;T15D;0000007208;;20080401;3;0;0;3;;B;ZZZZZZ;
WT;T25D;0000007208;;20080401;6;0;0;6;;B;ZZZZZZ;
WT;T5D;0000007208;;20080401;123;0;0;123;;B;ZZZZZZ;
to
WT;T15D;0000007208;;04/01/200804;3;0;0;3;;B;ZZZZZZ;... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
this is my second post, last post reply was very helpful.
I have a data that has date in DD/MM/YYYY (07/11/2008) format i want to replace the backslash by a dot(.) so that my awk script can read it inside the C shell script that i have written.
i want to change 07/11/2008 to... (3 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Can someone help me on how to change the date format using sed or any unix command to give my desired output as shown below.
INPUT FILE:
69372,200,20100122T17:56:02,2
53329,500,20100121T11:50:07,2
48865,100,20100114T16:08:16,2
11719,200,20100108T13:32:20,2
DESIRED... (2 Replies)
Dear Friends,
Need your help once again,
I have a variable ( e.g. ${i}) whoch has date in MM/DD/YYYY (E.g. 12/31/2011) format.
I want to change it to DD/MM/YYYY (e.g. 31/12/2011) format.
Request you to guide me as we are unable to do the same.
Thanks in advance
Anu. (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have a file that every line starts with the date and time. The format is like YYYYMMDDHHMM and I woulk like to change it to MM/DD/YY<space>HH:MM.
I tried to figure out a way to do it with sed, but I don't know how I could reorganize the digits of the first format. Does anyone have any... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I was looking for a script to change the date from one format to other. A search in the forum gave me the below script as a result.
#! /bin/ksh
format=YYYYMMDD
YEAR=${format%????}
DAY=${format#??????}
MON=${format#$YEAR}
MON=${MON%$DAY}
echo $MON/$DAY/$YEAR
I got it... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file where I need to change the date format on the nth field from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD so I can accurately sort the record by dates
From regex - Use sed or awk to fix date format - Stack Overflow, I found an example using nawk.
Test run as below:
$: cat xyz.txt
A ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
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dm_date
DM_DATE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation DM_DATE(1)NAME
dm_date - print out the system date and time
SYNOPSIS
This performs the same operation as the unix 'date' command, but using the Date::Manip module.
dm_date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
DESCRIPTION
This displays information about the current system time, or some other time. Options are:
-h, --help
Print online help.
-d STRING, --date=STRING
Display time described by STRING. STRING can be any string which can be parsed by Date::Manip. Please refer to the Date::Manip::Date
documentation for details.
-f DATEFILE, --file=DATEFILE
This reads each line in DATEFILE, and extracts a date from it and prints out the information.
Blank lines and lines starting with a pound (#) are ignored. Lines not containing a valid date are also ignored.
-r FILE, --reference=FILE
Displays the last modification time of FILE.
-R, --rfc-2822
Displayc the date and time in RFC 2822 format.
Example: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:34:56 -0600
-u, --utc, --universal
Converts the date to UT (GMT) and prints out the information.
Only one of -d, -f, or -r should be included. If more than one is included, the first one from the list (-d, -f, -r) is used and any other
is ignored.
The format string starts with a plus (+) and contains any of the format directives described in Date::Manip::Date.
KNOWN BUGS
None known.
BUGS AND QUESTIONS
Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.
SEE ALSO
Date::Manip::Date
LICENSE
This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)
perl v5.16.3 2014-06-09 DM_DATE(1)