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Old 11-11-2013
Extract date / time
Code:
[Tue Oct  1 13:32:40 2013]

How do i display in the below format without the brackets using shell script.

Code:
Tue Oct  1 13:32:40 2013

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Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-11-2013 at 03:58 AM..
# 2  
Old 11-11-2013
Code:
date '+%a %b %d %T %Y'

# 3  
Old 11-11-2013
Date time
Can you please explain it.
# 4  
Old 11-11-2013
Code:
#cat hi
[Tue Oct  1 13:32:40 2013]

Code:
#sed -n 's/\[// ; s/\]//p' hi
Tue Oct  1 13:32:40 2013

Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-11-2013 at 04:57 AM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
# 5  
Old 11-11-2013
Date time
I dont want to use SED for this. I want to use the date and cut command to display it.
# 6  
Old 11-11-2013
Use the command which praveen has give in previous post. To know more information about date use command below

Code:
man date

Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-11-2013 at 04:57 AM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
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Old 11-11-2013
Where do you get this date format from? Output from a program, log-file etc
Code:
echo "[Tue Oct  1 13:32:40 2013]" | awk '{gsub(/^\[|\] *$/,x)}1'
Tue Oct  1 13:32:40 2013
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