formatting a string

[Zhang Lei]

"%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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