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Old 09-26-2012
substring a date
Hello

I am trying to substring the month in a date string
I am getting an error " bad substitution"

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
INPUT='20121225'
echo ${$INPUT:5:2}
exit 0

Very new in unix.

Thanks.

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Mod Comment Please use code tags next time for your code and data.
Last edited by radoulov; 09-26-2012 at 12:48 PM..
# 2  
Old 09-26-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by lillyt2006
Hello

I am trying to substring the month in a date string
I am getting an error " bad substitution"

#!/bin/ksh
INPUT='20121225'
echo ${INPUT:5:2}
exit 0

Very new in unix.

Thanks.
Try the above. You have one extra $ in cmd substitution.
# 3  
Old 09-26-2012
I get the same error 'bad substitution'

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
INPUT='20121225'
echo ${INPUT:5:2}
exit 0

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Mod Comment Please view this code tag video for how to use code tags when posting code and data.
Last edited by Corona688; 09-26-2012 at 01:31 PM..
# 4  
Old 09-26-2012
Possibly you are using KSH88 or PDKSH, which do not have substrings.
# 5  
Old 09-26-2012
Try replacing ksh with ksh93, in your script. That aside, the substring should start with 4 and not 5.
# 6  
Old 09-26-2012
I tried replacing ksh with ksh93 and I get "ksh: test2.sh: not found"
(Thanks for the substring position correction)

I was looking into awk but I'm not sure if it looks by string position.

---------- Post updated at 05:06 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:04 PM ----------

I finally got it after 1 hour.

INPUT='20121225'
echo $INPUT | awk '{print substr($0,5,2)}'
# 7  
Old 09-26-2012
No matter what version of ksh or bash you have, the following should work:
Code:
md=${INPUT#????}
m=${md%??}
echo $m

$md will be the month and day, $m will just be the month.
 
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