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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 04:59:59 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Brett Jackson <brett@bsduser.ca>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: using `date` in a script
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On 2002-02-07 12:07, Brett Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having difficulty passing a variable to date(8) and have it spit out
> the data in the date format.
> 
> for example:
> birthday=19450104
> 
> >date -f ccyymmdd $birthday
> 
> that is some ugly psuedocode, eh?  Can I even do this?
> I have read the manpage to see how to format the current date, but am lost
> somewhere when trying the above.

Try the following:

	$ date -j -f '%Y%m%d' 19450104 '+%c'
	Thu Jan  4 04:51:50 1945

Note the use of options:
	-j (do not set date, but only print it).
	-f 'input-format' input-date
	and '+%c' to define output format.

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