formatting a string

[Zhang Lei]

sorry,i made a mistake.
it should be:
 [zhangl at L-tech zhangl]$ date -d 20050202 +%Y-%m-%d

Regards
Zhang Lei

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zhang Lei" <zhl at nanjing-fnst.com>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: formatting a string


> "%F" is same as "%Y-%m-%d"
>
> try it as
>
> [zhangl at L-tech zhangl]$ date -d 20050202 +%F
>
> Regards
> Zhang Lei
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Buehler" <steve at ibapp.com>
> To: <ewilts at ewilts.org>; "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" 
> <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:32 AM
> Subject: Re: formatting a string
>
>
>> At 10:23 AM 2/28/2005, Ed Wilts wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>> THAT is exactly what I was looking for.  I am running RHEL ES 3 and my 
>> man page doesn't have the "%F" option in it.  I searched on google to get 
>> another set of the man pages and sure enough......it is on their.  I am 
>> running:
>> # date --version
>> date (coreutils) 4.5.3
>>
>> Not sure why my man pages say they are the same version, but it isn't 
>> documented there.  A "date --help" shows the option.
>> Anyway, thank you VERY MUCH
>> Steve
>>
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