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Old 07-06-2011
Execute a unix command

Hi,

Please suggest me to execute unix command.

Input : 2011-01-01 00:00:00

[YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS]

Required output : 20110101000000

YYYYMMDDHH24MISS

Regards
Akshu
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Old 07-06-2011
Is your's gnu date ?

try whether the below command works or not

Code:
date -d "1 day ago" +%Y%m%d

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Old 07-06-2011
2011-01-01 00:00:00 is just a string..
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Old 07-06-2011
Try
Code:
$ echo "2011-01-01 00:00:00" | sed 's/[ :-]//g'
20110101000000

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Old 07-06-2011
Code:
echo '2011-01-01 00:00:00' | sed -n 's/[-| |:]//gp'


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