Xor News » Linux http://www.flester.com/blog You can't have it both ways Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:18:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Converting date formats http://www.flester.com/blog/2008/05/01/converting-date-formats http://www.flester.com/blog/2008/05/01/converting-date-formats#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 14:46:53 +0000 mike http://www.flester.com/blog/2008/05/01/converting-date-formats I can’t believe this never occurred to me before. Use GNU date(1) to convert between various date formats


   mike% date '+%Y%j' -d 20080430
   2008121

And for moving a date around in time


  mike% date '+%Y%j' -d yesterday
  2008121

Sweet.

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