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AieshaDot
AieshaDot

Reputation: 835

How to format the date in KornShell script to DD-MON-YYYY?

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?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 37486

Answers (3)

Mark Rushakoff
Mark Rushakoff

Reputation: 258388

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.

Upvotes: 5

AieshaDot
AieshaDot

Reputation: 835

This is what finally worked on unix(solaris).

date '+%d-%h-%Y' | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]

returned: 04-NOV-2009

Upvotes: 5

martin clayton
martin clayton

Reputation: 78185

You could uppercase it yourself if caret uppercase is not supported in your environment:

date '+%d-%h-%Y' | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'

Upvotes: 2

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