UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

## Short Name Month Listing.
shtmth="Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec"

# Read file
xStart=`cut -c1 $INFILE`
xYr=`cut -c2-5 $INFILE`
xMth=`cut -c6-7 $INFILE`
xDay=`cut -c8-9 $INFILE`
xRemainder=`cut -c10-18 $INFILE`

# Output
echo $xStart$xDay`echo $shtmth | cut -f$xMth -d" "`$xYr$xRemainder >> $OUTFILE

awk '
BEGIN {split("Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug \
Sep Oct Nov Dec",mon)}
  {yyyy=substr($0,2,4)
   mm=substr($0,6,2)
   dd=substr($0,8,2)
   rem=substr($0,10)
   print "|" dd "-" mon[mm+0] "-" yyyy rem
  }' mavdata > newdata

awk -F\| '
BEGIN {split("Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,\
Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec",mon,",")}
  {yyyy=substr($2,1,4)
   mm=substr($2,5,2)
   dd=substr($2,7,2)
   print "|" dd "-" mon[mm+0] "-" yyyy "|" $3 "|"
  }' mavdata > newdata