"%F" is same as "%Y-%m-%d"
try it as
[zhangl@L-tech zhangl]$ date -d 20050202 +%F
Regards Zhang Lei
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Buehler" <steve@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx>; "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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@scsftp ewilts]$ NEWDATE=`date -d 20050202 +%F` [ewilts@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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