Re: formatting a string

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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@scsftp ewilts]$ NEWDATE=`date -d 20050202 +%F`
[ewilts@scsftp ewilts]$ echo $NEWDATE
2005-02-02

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