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 Message-ID: <20020208025959.GA24241@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020207120404.O7616-100000@bsduser.ca> References: <20020207120404.O7616-100000@bsduser.ca>
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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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