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Old 03-20-2012
dealing with dates in a text file
hi guys im trying to write a bash script that grabs expired domain names it leaves me with the following outpiut in a text file

Quote:
1, test.com Expiration Date:17-jun-2013
2, test.net Expiration Date:29-mar-2013
3, test.org Expiration Date:26-Jul-2012 04:00:00
4, .test.biz Expiration Date:Mar 26 23:59:59 2012
5, test.info Expiration Date:27-Jul-2012 07:56:43

Im hoping to try to normalise all the dates to the format displayed in the first 2 lines and remove the times so the file looks unfirom can any one give me a heads up ?

Thanks for looking
Last edited by dunryc; 03-20-2012 at 02:37 PM..
# 2  
Old 03-20-2012
Code:
#!/bin/bash

while IFS=":" read THING TIME
do
        set -- $TIME

        case "$TIME" in
        [0-9][0-9]-???-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])    ;;
        [0-9][0-9]-???-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" "*)
                TIME=$1
                ;;
        [jJ]an" "*|[fF]eb" "*|[mM]ar" "*|[aA]pr" "*|[mM]ay" "*|[jJ]un" "*|[jJ]ul" "*|[aA]ug" "*|[sS]ep" "*|[oO]ct" "*|[nN]ov" "*|[dD]ec" "*)
                TIME=$(printf "%02d-%s-%04d\n" $2 $1 $4)
                ;;
        *)
                echo "Unknown time format $TIME" >&2
                continue
                ;;
        esac

        echo "$THING:$TIME"
done < data

# 3  
Old 03-20-2012
@corona688 much apprectiaed worked like a charm

thanks
# 4  
Old 03-20-2012
You can use date itself to perform this,

Code:
$ for i in \
  "17-jun-2013" \
  "29-mar-2013" \
  "26-Jul-2012 04:00:00" \
  "Mar 26 23:59:59 2012" \
  "27-Jul-2012 07:56:43" ; \
do \
  date -d "$i" '+%d-%b-%Y' ; \
done ;
17-Jun-2013
29-Mar-2013
26-Jul-2012
26-Mar-2012
27-Jul-2012

# 5  
Old 03-20-2012
When someone hasn't stated what their system is, odds are good an answer using GNU date will be useless; you don't find that mostly anywhere except Linux. Only fairly recent versions of GNU date have a -d that flexible, too.
# 6  
Old 03-20-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
When someone hasn't stated what their system is, odds are good an answer using GNU date will be useless; you don't find that mostly anywhere except Linux. Only fairly recent versions of GNU date have a -d that flexible, too.
When I find that date can't do things like this I often just build GNU Coreutils on the destination. The time it takes to compile is often far less than tweaking to get the date handling right myself Smilie
# 7  
Old 03-20-2012
So would I, on any machine I had administrator oversight on. But that's often a limitation too Smilie
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