On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, Paul Heinlein wrote: > I'm late to this party, but in this case, you can use GNU date, e.g.,
Welcome to the party, Paul. There's still some microbrew on tap; help yourself. > for D in "2014/04/10" "2015/05/11" "2016/06/12"; do > date -d $D +%F > done How do I generalize this so I can pass a 4,000-row filename and date will act on only the date field within that row? Almost 20 years ago Eric Harrison told me that linux is simple: each tool does one job and is easy to understand. However, he said, there are thousands of tools. :-) Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
