Hi Ryan: Here are those promised links:
Bash specific: http://unix.about.com/cs/shellsbash/ http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~jacques/NAPI/unite-A1/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/ http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.05a/html_node/bashref.html http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/ http://www.geocities.com/tipsforlinux/articles2/043.html General UNIX shell: http://www.linuxlots.com/~dunne/scripts.html http://www.sandyxsystems.co.uk/forum/ http://www.shelldorado.com/ HTH Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com > From: Hugh E Cruickshank Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 18:10 > > Hi Ryan: > > I believe I have some link at the office. I will try and remember > to forward them to you on Monday. > > In the interim, take a look at the awk command. This will allow > you to reformat the input lines (as well as many other things). > For a start the command: > > awk '{print $10 " " $7 " " $8 " " $9}' <infile > > (where infile is you input file name) will reformat your line to: > > 2003 Feb 3 00:32:48 > > You can then pipe the output to sort to sort the lines. > > Perl would probably be better but I don't know it well enough to > give you an example. Anyway, that should give you a push in the > right direction. > > There is a newsgroup, comp.unix.shell, that might be a better > place to post shell programming questions. > > HTH > > Regards, Hugh > > -- > Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com > > From: RD Egeland Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 16:51 > > > > I'm just learning how to write shell scripts, and I'd like to > > find example > > scripts to look at. The BASH howto and Advanced BASH howto isn't > > too great > > in this respect. > > > > The immediate task I'm trying to do is extract a date into a > standardized > > format which I can then somehow sort. The text I need to extract > > the date > > from looks like: > > > > Bid End time (eBay) : Mon Feb 3 00:32:48 2003 (GMT) > > > > Any tips? > > > > Ryan > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 03/01/27 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
