for d in `cat /tmp/t`; do date +%Y/%m/%d -d $d; done On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Abdallah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Salam Alaikum Wr Wb > > I have a brain teaser of the shell utilities type for you guys. :) > > A file foo.txt has a list of date strings in this format: > > 8/31/2011 > 1/7/2020 > 1/31/2013 > 11/4/2010 > > and so one. > > How would one go about flipping them into yyyy/mm/dd format in bar.txt? > > as in : > > 2011/08/31 > 2020/01/07 > 2013/01/31 > 2010/11/04 > > Notice the single digit month or day must become 2 digits. From 8 to 08 > > > "compute regular expressions in his mind at the speed of lighting" Huh! > > > :D > > Wasslam Alaikum wr wb > > Abdallah > > > ps. The speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s So how many meters do you > need? > > > > -- abulyomon www.KiLLTHeUPLiNK.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### http://Jolug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo ### Ojuba Linux ### http://ojuba.org/ ### Jordan PHP ### http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
