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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Validate date and time in filename by awk Post 302964546 by MOHANP12 on Friday 15th of January 2016 12:07:43 PM
Old 01-15-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by chakrapani
I want to use system date. Can you check if date +"%Y%m%d" works

My idea is to use
Code:
awk -v date="$(date +"%Y%m%d" )

So I get a variable made which can be compared
Code:
date +"%Y%m%d" AND awk -v date="$(date +"%Y%m%d" )

NOT WORKING ALREADY TRY ON AIX 6
THANKS MAN

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my sample data
Code:
filename : mohan.moh.ccyymmdd.ccyymmdd.hhmmss.txt
 mohan_moh.20151222.20151222.122442.txt

please suggest me something like so validate name string date and time in single awk command in AIX 6
my sample code
Code:
awk -F '.' '{
IF($1== mohan_moh)
 then print ok 
elif ($2= --some regular expression to validate date) here $2 is 20151222
then print ok 
elif ($3= --some regular expression to validate date) here $3 is 20151222
then print ok
elif ($4= --some regular expression to validate time) here $4 is 122442
then print ok
else
 print nok
fi}

 

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