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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Modify comma delimited file columns. Post 302990396 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 25th of January 2017 11:45:51 PM
Old 01-26-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by KrishnaVM
Please help me to update a file which contains date values as below:-

From:-
Code:
"1912108",20161130,"2016-12-01-00.00.00.000000","2016-12-01-08.37.12.000000"
"1912108",20161201,"2016-12-02-00.00.00.000000","2016-12-02-08.28.22.000000"

To:-
Code:
"1912108",2016-11-30,"2016-12-01 00.00.00.000000","2016-12-01 08.37.12.000000"
"1912108",2016-12-01,"2016-12-02 00.00.00.000000","2016-12-02 08.28.22.000000"

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