I need a date format of DD-MON-YYYY 3

[tokerago13]

Hi there,

If anyone can help I'll really be greatful. I need a date in the format DD-MON-YYYY i.e.14-JUL-2004. In my UNIX script what I can get is 14-Jul-2004 using date %d-%b%Y.
As I can't seem to get the correct date format, anyone know how I can convert the the date 14-Jul-2004 to 14-JUL-2004. what I'll need will be to convert Jul to JUL.
Any ideas will be much appreciated.

tokerago13

 

[Ygor]

Try...
[tt] date '+%d-%b-%Y' | tr [:lower:] [:upper:][/tt]

 

[Mike042]

There are several ways to achieve this, my personal favourite is:
datestring=`date +'%d-%b-%Y' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`

which should work in Bourne and Korne shells (and bash).

I hope that helps.

Mike

 

[RodKnowlton]

Another variation of Mike's, for KornShell only:

typeset -u datestring=`date +"%d-%b-%Y`

Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L