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Hi All, I am pretty good at bash programing now what I want to do is read in the date strip it down to day month year like 30/05/06 how ...
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  1. 05-30-2006 #1
    Luke_C
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    Bash Scripting striping date (Fixed)

    Hi All,
    I am pretty good at bash programing now what I want to do is read in the date strip it down to day month year like 30/05/06 how would I go about doing this.

    So basicly read in "date" then strip..... any ideas would be good.
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    hchasqueira
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    The date command already does this. Try

    Code:
    date +%d/%m/%y
    for the format you specified.

    Try:

    Code:
    man date
    for other possible formats.
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