formatting a string
Steve Buehler
steve at ibapp.com
Mon Feb 28 15:56:23 UTC 2005
I am writing a shell script (#!/bin/sh) that will change some file names
around but am having trouble formatting a string. If I have a string like
this:
20050202
How can I change it to:
2005-02-02
I have about a thousand files so it isn't really feasable for me to be
changing the names manually. All of the files are similar to this and I
have everything in the script to make the change but this one problem.
I have looked into "printf" and "awk/split", but I don't think either one
of these would work for me. Maybe one would, but I just couldn't figure it
out. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Steve
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