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01-14-2016

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Hi,

Date utility collection dateutils, can handle situations like this. Here's a demonstration, but note that this version of dconv will fail on some 2-digit year data. This is an issue with Debian being behind, the author has added an option to handle many 2-digit years correctly.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1	Demonstrate date conversion, dateutils, dconv.
# Warning:
# dateutils earlier than 0.3.3 will not convert correctly some
# 2-digit years by default, as is noted here for year "67".

program=dconv
program=dateutils.dconv
# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
LC_ALL=C ; LANG=C ; export LC_ALL LANG
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C $program

FILE=${1-data1}

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat $FILE

pl " Expected output:"
cat expected-output.txt

pl " Results:"
input='%d-%b-%y'
pe " Input format is \"$input\""
$program -i "$input" -f '%Y%m%d' -S < $FILE

exit 0

producing:

Code:

$ ./s1

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 3.16.0-4-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 8.2 (jessie) 
bash GNU bash 4.3.30
dateutils.dconv dconv 0.3.1

-----
 Input data file data1:
Col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|col6-------col26
1|2|3|10-Nov-67|10-Nov-97|4|5-------100
1|2|3|11-Feb-01|01-Dec-15|4|5-------2000

-----
 Expected output:
Col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|col6-------col26
1|2|3|19671110|19971010|4|5-------100
1|2|3|20010211|20151201|4|5-------2000


-----
 Results:
 Input format is "%d-%b-%y"
Col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|col6-------col26
1|2|3|20671110|19971110|4|5-------100
1|2|3|20010211|20151201|4|5-------2000

I hesitated to post code that doesn't work correctly with the user data, but the usefulness of the dateutils collection is appropriate, especially because the issue can be resolved with a more recent version than I have at my disposal.

The collection can be found in many repositories.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

drl

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