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Subject: Re: using `date` in a script
From: Gilad Rom <rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc: Brett Jackson <brett@bsduser.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Hi,

Use something like this:

bday=`date '+%m/%d/%Y'`
echo $bday

Gilad

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 02:59, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org}
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