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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Date: invalid date trying to set Linux date in specific format Post 303028768 by RudiC on Monday 14th of January 2019 12:28:05 PM
Old 01-14-2019
You might also, if your shell offers "here strings", try


Code:
$ IFS="- :" read DAY MTH YR HR MIN SEC <<< "$yourdate"
$ echo $DAY $MTH $YR $HR $MIN $SEC
19 01 2017 00 05 01
$ date -d"$YR-$MTH-$DAY $HR:$MIN:$SEC"
Do 19. Jan 00:05:01 CET 2017

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poterminology

poterminology(1)					      Translate Toolkit 1.9.0						  poterminology(1)

NAME

       poterminology - reads a set of .po or .pot files to produce a pootle-terminology.pot

SYNOPSIS

       poterminology [--version] [-h|--help] [--manpage] [--progress PROGRESS] [--errorlevel ERRORLEVEL] [-i|--input] INPUT [-x|--exclude EXCLUDE]
       [-o|--output] OUTPUT [-u|--update UPDATEFILE] [-S|--stopword-list STOPFILE] [-F|--fold-titlecase]  [-C|--preserve-case]	[-I|--ignore-case]
       [--accelerator  ACCELERATORS] [-t|--term-words LENGTH] [--nonstop-needed MIN] [--inputs-needed MIN] [--fullmsg-needed MIN] [--substr-needed
       MIN] [--locs-needed MIN] [--sort ORDER] [--source-language LANG] [-v|--invert]

DESCRIPTION

       See: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/poterminology for examples and usage instructions

OPTIONS

       --version
	      show program's version number and exit

       -h/--help
	      show this help message and exit

       --manpage
	      output a manpage based on the help

       --progress
	      show progress as: dots, none, bar, names, verbose

       --errorlevel
	      show errorlevel as: none, message, exception, traceback

       -i/--input
	      read from INPUT in pot, po formats

       -x/--exclude
	      exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths

       -o/--output
	      write to OUTPUT in po, pot formats

       -u/--update
	      update terminology in UPDATEFILE

       -S/--stopword-list
	      read stopword (term exclusion) list from STOPFILE (default /usr/share/pyshared/translate/share/stoplist-en)

       -F/--fold-titlecase
	      fold "Title Case" to lowercase (default)

       -C/--preserve-case
	      preserve all uppercase/lowercase

       -I/--ignore-case
	      make all terms lowercase

       --accelerator
	      ignores the given accelerator characters when matching

       -t/--term-words
	      generate terms of up to LENGTH words (default 3)

       --nonstop-needed
	      omit terms with less than MIN nonstop words (default 1)

       --inputs-needed
	      omit terms appearing in less than MIN input files (default 2, or 1 if only one input file)

       --fullmsg-needed
	      omit full message terms appearing in less than MIN different messages (default 1)

       --substr-needed
	      omit substring-only terms appearing in less than MIN different messages (default 2)

       --locs-needed
	      omit terms appearing in less than MIN different original source files (default 2)

       --sort output sort order(s): frequency, dictionary, length (default is all orders in the above priority)

       --source-language
	      the source language code (default 'en')

       -v/--invert
	      invert the source and target languages for terminology

							      Translate Toolkit 1.9.0						  poterminology(1)
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