Re: Help with Grep and date

[Matthew Woehlke]

omega_grey wrote:
> If I have a text file full of dates in the format 01/12/08 or 1/12/08 can
> grep rewrite it as 2008-12-01.

No. Why on earth would you expect grep to have that ability?

> and for kicks, since I am asking. can you take 3:00 pm and make it military
> time?

You /might/ be able to do this with 'date' (somewhat complicated, but 
possibly most reliable). You *can* do it with sed or awk; awk is 
probably easier (because it can do math; with sed, you'd have to write 
an expression, but I don't know awk very well, so can't help much. Do 
your own research :-).

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