On 02-Feb-2003/00:51 +0000, RD Egeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm just learning how to write shell scripts, and I'd like to find example >scripts to look at. The BASH howto and Advanced BASH howto isn't too great >in this respect. > >The immediate task I'm trying to do is extract a date into a standardized >format which I can then somehow sort. The text I need to extract the date >from looks like: > >Bid End time (eBay) : Mon Feb 3 00:32:48 2003 (GMT)
Assuming the date string starts at the 22nd character and goes to the end of the line, as in the line you provided: enddate=`echo $line | cut -c 22- ` sortdate=`date -d "$enddate" +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` echo $sortdate Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
