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April 27th, 2004, 04:04 AM

Vinod V

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Convert Date string to number

Hi how do i convert a date i grep from a file (say apr 2004) to numbers i.e. 042004 or even o4 and 2004 separately? .Thnx in adv.

May 3rd, 2004, 08:02 PM

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Vinod,

firstly determine the file separators then you can use awk to get the substring and use the case statements to decode the month names to month numbers.

May 3rd, 2004, 08:30 PM

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Hi Prashanth,

Thx for the solution. I actually thought of that before but was just wondering if there was any less cumbersome way of doing it. Also lesser lines of code means easier troubleshooting.

It is beacuse I have a file of users and their last logins which I have to compare with users in a wtpmx file in several other directories which have been FTPed into the machine. So if I use case, it is going to take a very long time to excecute. Any other suggestions? Thx in adv.

May 29th, 2004, 01:01 PM

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Vinod,
Check out the ksh function at the posting below to see if it may help -
http://forums.devshed.com/t127672/s.html

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