How do I format a date in a KornShell (ksh) script to DD-MON-YYYY?
I have tried the following:
date '+%d-%h-%Y'
It returns 04-Nov-2009 I need for the Nov to be NOV (all caps). Can this be done with the date utility?
This is what finally worked on unix(solaris).
date '+%d-%h-%Y' | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
returned: 04-NOV-2009
The ^ character forces uppercase in the GNU coreutils date
(at least, it does in version 6.9.92.4 of coreutils):
$ date '+%d-%^h-%Y'
04-NOV-2009
Unfortunately, ^ is not POSIX standard for date
, so you'll probably have to resort to a second command such as the tr
suggested by @martin clayton, if you aren't on a GNU system.
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