Originally Posted by
charandevu
it is not working.......
file1
E108,0,2/3/1995,0,E001,E003,A,15000,1250,7.211538
E109,0,2/15/1995,0,E001,E001,A,78000,6500,37.5
E110,0,10/12/1995,0,E001,E001,A,56000,4666.667,26.923077
I wann to convert the this file1 to file2
E108,0,199523,0,E001,E003,A,15000,1250,7.211538
E109,0,1995215,0,E001,E001,A,78000,6500,37.5
E110,0,19951012,0,E001,E001,A,56000,4666.667,26.923077
and on this file i am going to do more process like sort and compare.....with other files which has this date format...........
And is it possible to hold the date value in a string variable while reading from a file..........i am here with developing a tool which should process within a min......And i am new to unix.
Please let me know on this how to do that..........asap