We don't want you to shut up. We want you to learn. When you ask a question, and you get one or more suggestions; if you don't understand what it does:And then:And, if you got something that works, but you can't figure out how it works, ask questions. Most of the volunteers who make suggestions here are happy to explain what their (or someone else's) code does. We want to help you learn how to make the most out of the tools that are available to you.

And, for other people reading this thread. If you wanted to do something like what was requested here on a system that doesn't have gawk and has a date utility that doesn't support the --date option, but you do have access to a 1993 or later version of the Korn shell (such as on Mac OS/X), you could also try:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
while read d t v
do	printf '%s %-23s%-14s%(%A)T\n' "$d" "$t" "$v" "$d"
done < output

which with the given sample input file produces:

Code:

07/01/14 15:47:22               179.9500      Tuesday
07/01/14 16:03:29               3.9500        Tuesday
06/26/14 11:59:43               19.8000       Thursday
06/27/14 12:02:43               160.0000      Friday
07/02/14 13:12:35               5.9500        Wednesday
07/02/14 13:34:17               5.9500        Wednesday