1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need to capture a file's creation/modification date and time and convert this to a different format, whilst I can easily get the existing format from a ls -l | awk ' { print $......}' or a cut command I do not know how to convert it to a desired format? I should add that at present the ls -l... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Please anyone to help to write script to convert date to 'yyyy-mm-dd'(If column is date convert) because my file has large and lot of date colums. If file is small ,using awk command to achive. cat file1|awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS='|'}... (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am having couple of files which i used to copy from windows to Linux, so now in case of text files (CTRL^M) appears at end of line. I know i can convert this windows format file to unix format file by running dos2unix. My requirement here is that i want to do it automatically using a... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Friends, We have date in output as MM/DD/YYYY format and I want to convert it in DD/MM/YYYY format. e.g. 12/31/2010 to 31/12/2010 We have checked forum for the solution but we are not getting matching query. Please guide us Thanks Anushree. (6 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have an assignment in a Linux class I am taking. It has multiple scripts. Basicly when it runs it asks the user name and shows information about the user from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. The one I need help with is the one that reads the /etc/shadow file. I need to format the date into... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi All, I am new to this forum, could any one help me out in resolving the below issue. Input of the flat file contains several lines of text for example find below: 5022090,2,4,7154,88,,,,,4/1/2011 0:00,Z,L,2 5022090,3,1,6648,88,,,,,4/1/2011 0:00,Z,,1... (0 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am new to this forum. Could anyone help me to resolve the following issue. Input of the flat file contains several lines of text for example find below: 5022090,2,4,7154,88,,,,,4/1/2011 0:00,Z,L,2 5022090,3,1,6648,88,,,,,4/1/2011 0:00,Z,,1 5022090,4,1,6648,88,,,,,4/1/2011... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all, I have 2 questions. I have a file with many rows which has date of the format YYYYMMDD. 1. I need to change the date to that weeks friday date(Ex: 20120716(monday) to 20120720). Satuday/Sunday has to be changed to next week friday date too. 2. After converting the date to... (10 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Friends, I am in urgent need for awk/sed/sh script for converting a specific data format (.txt) to .xls. The input is as follows: >gi|1234|ref| Query = 1 - 65, Target = 1677 - 1733 Score = 8.38, E = 0.6529, P = 0.0001513, GC = 46 fd sdfsdfsdfsdf fsdfdsfdfdfdfdfdf... (6 Replies)