formatting a string
Ed Wilts
ewilts at ewilts.org
Mon Feb 28 16:23:41 UTC 2005
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:56:23AM -0600, Steve Buehler wrote:
> 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
[ewilts at scsftp ewilts]$ NEWDATE=`date -d 20050202 +%F`
[ewilts at scsftp ewilts]$ echo $NEWDATE
2005-02-02
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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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