On Thursday 29 of January 2015 16:51:42 Smith M-Brad - msmith wrote: > I have executed two separate commands to extract a table of contents > from a CPIO archive where the date/time field look as follows: > > Jun 2 2014 > Aug 20 23:40
The fact that the second item is in future is correct? > Is there some place that I can set some type of value, export something > to give me a consistent output every time? If you want something to adjust GNU cpio behavior, that is not possible. Have a ook at the long_format function in source. > Would be quite content with merely the date.. > Jun 2 2014 > Or better > 2014-06-02 Then something like 'date' command from GNU coreutils could help: $ date --date "Jun 2 2014" +"%y-%m-%d" 14-06-02 $ date --date "Aug 20 23:40" +"%y-%m-%d" 15-08-20 Pavel
