Need help with following date conversion:
I have my dates as 08/02/2010 and I want to convert into 8/2/2010, incase date is 18/12/2010 I want to be same way.
Please guide me.
keeda
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Jump to PostIf you are using ksh93 you can use the print %T syntax to achieve what you want to do
$ date="08/02/2010" $ print $date 08/02/2010 $ date=$(printf "%(%-m/%-d/%Y)T" "$date") $ print $date 8/2/2010 $
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fpmurphy
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Junior Poster
If you are using ksh93 you can use the print %T syntax to achieve what you want to do
$ date="08/02/2010"
$ print $date
08/02/2010
$ date=$(printf "%(%-m/%-d/%Y)T" "$date")
$ print $date
8/2/2010
$
cfajohnson
7
Shell scripter and author
date=08/02/2010
IFS=/ read d m y <<.
$date
.
date=$( printf "%d/%d/%d" "${d#0}" "${m#0}" "$y" )
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