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Reputation: 11

Eliminating time zone from date string in a Unix shell script

I have date formatted like below and I want to remove GMT+05:30 from the date using a shell script.

Tue Dec  4 17:30:51 GMT+05:30 2012

and output should be 

Tue Dec  4 17:30:51 2012

I am new to shell script and still learning.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6552

Answers (1)

Dmytro Sirenko
Dmytro Sirenko

Reputation: 5083

Use sed if you can't change the date output:

... | sed 's/GMT+5:30 //g' | ...

But a better solution is to use date formatting capabilities:

date +"%a %b %d %T %Y"

(for details, see man date)

Upvotes: 3

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