Date conversion problem...

[suhaimi]

Hi all,
Is there a unix function to change a particular date string to a different date format?????
eq: 25/11/2001 convert to 25-Nov-01
31-Aug-2001 convert to 20010831
I know there is a long way to do it: use case/switch to convert. eg case $1
"Jan&quot val=1;;
"Feb&quot val=2;;
:
:
Is there any simple method to do the conversion?????

Thanks,
Suhaimi

 

[grega]

To get the the date in the the format 13-Nov-01, you can use date +%d-%h-%y

Look at man strftime for a full list of options for formatting the current date.

Now, if you want to format a different date other than the current date (i.e. not using the date command) ... that's not so easy. Nigh on impossible in fact

Greg.