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Old 07-06-2012
Hi Folks,

Just a final update on this for anyone that is interested, the code below is as used to correct the layout of the date field from the old format to the required one - just incase anyone should find it useful.

Code:
$> nawk -F, '
> BEGIN { OFS = "," }
>
> $6 ~ "/"  {
>         split($6, a, "/")
>         $6 = sprintf("19%s-%s-%s",
>                 sprintf("%02d", a[3]),
>                 sprintf("%02d", a[1]),
>                 sprintf("%02d", a[2]) )
>
>         print
> }' < test_file
N1,GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE,G-IV,1071,FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION,1992-10-26
N1A,GOODYEAR,GZ-20A,4117,GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO,1992-02-24
N1AA,CESSNA,414A,414A0482,RAGSDALE INVESTMENTS INC,1991-04-17
N1AC,EAA SPORT BIPLANE,HOME BUILT,3138,EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC,1992-03-31

$> cat te*
N1,GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE,G-IV,1071,FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION,10/26/92
N1A,GOODYEAR,GZ-20A,4117,GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO,2/24/92
N1AA,CESSNA,414A,414A0482,RAGSDALE INVESTMENTS INC,4/17/91
N1AC,EAA SPORT BIPLANE,HOME BUILT,3138,EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC,3/31/92

Again guys thanks for the help.

Regards

Dave
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DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)					      Debconf						  DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)

NAME
debconf-mergetemplate - merge together multiple debconf template files SYNOPSIS
debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll ...] templates DESCRIPTION
Note: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-debconf's po2debconf program. This program is useful if you have multiple debconf templates files which you want to merge together into one big file. All the specified files will be read in, merged, and output to standard output. This can be especially useful if you are dealing with translated template files. In this case, you might have your main template file, plus several other files provided by the translators. These files will have translated fields in them, and maybe the translators left in the english versions of the fields they translated, for their reference. So, you want to merge together all the translated templates files with your main templates file. Any fields that are unique to the translated files need to be added in to the correct templates, but any fields they have in common should be superseded by the fields in the main file (which might be more up-to-date). This program handles that case properly, just list each of the translated templates files, and then your main templates file last. OPTIONS
--outdated Merge in even outdated translations. The default is to drop them with a warning message. --drop-old-templates If a translation has an entire template that is not in the master file (and thus is probably an old template), drop that entire template. SEE ALSO
debconf-getlang(1) AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 2012-09-10 DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)