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Old 01-25-2013
Change date format in shell script
Plz help me

To display date in the mm/dd/yyyy. Eg. if date is 28-09-2012 the output of the shell script should be date 09/28/2012.
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Old 01-25-2013
Bash sub string:
Code:
DT="28-09-2012"
DT="${DT:3:2}/${DT:0:2}/${DT:6:4}"
echo $DT

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