Date format in awk

[mzh]

Friends:<br>
<br>
Is there anybody who can help me to format Date result in awk program?<br>
I usede &quot;DATE&quot; ¦ getline dd<br>
printf (dd)<br>
and got something like this:<br>
Fri Jan 28 09:53:04 CST 2000<br>
<br>
Question:<br>
<br>
If I want to format it as CCYYMMDDhhmmss, do you know any simple way<br>
in AWK instead of spliting the whole line and then process each part?<br>
With this way, the month (&quot;Jan&quot; here) needs to be converted to &quot;01&quot; by <br>
some coding lines. It's easy but I just guess maybe there is a straitforward <br>
way in awk I have not known. <br>
<br>
Any idea?<br>
<br>
mzh<br>
<br>
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[grega]

Not sure what you mean here ... but the Unix command ;<br>
<br>
date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'<br>
<br>
will return the current date in the format you need. Post again if you need more help.<br>