On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Just wondering if you could lend me a little hand. Basically I want to
> rename a file from log.1 log.2 etc to log.10.36.34. The time stamp
> (ignore the date) should be the last written time, so far I've got to
> this stage:
>
> stat log | sed -n '/Modify:/p' | awk -F ' ' '{print $3}'
>
> so I get :
> 11:01:09.000000000
>
> How can I get rid of the leading 0'swithout having to pipe the output
> to anotehr awk statement, is it possible to do this withing the
> current awk statement?
>
Probably, yes, look at the substr() function.
You don't need the sed in the pipe either I don't think, you could do
this with the pattern matching capabilities of awk, e.g. (not tested) :-
stat log | awk -F ' ' '/Modify:/ {print $3}'
(N.B. I haven't done the substr() bit)
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Chris Green
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