On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Roger Heflin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Track wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Dan Track wrote: >>>> >>>> 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? >>> >>> There simpler solutions but this works: >>> >>> stat log | awk '/Modify/ { print $3 }' | cut -d . -f 1 >>> >> >> >> Hi >> >> I had already changed it to do it the way you mentioned. Guess there's >> no way to do a second break within AWK. >> >> Thanks Guys, >> >> Dan >> > It's trivial, you need to use the split function. > > stat log | awk '/Modify/ { split($3,parts,".") ;print parts[1] }' > >
Tinkering with FS may be worth a look too: stat log | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "[ \t.]" }; /Modify/ { print $3; print $0 }' -- NiftyFedora T o m M i t c h e l l -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list