Date Format Change

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi I have a date format in a variable as Mon Jan 11 03:35:59 2010. how do i change it to YYYYMMDD format

2

try this

 
$ echo $ab
Mon Jan 11 03:35:59 2010
 
$ date --date "$ab" +"%Y%d%m"
20101101
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$ mydatevar='Mon Jan 11 03:35:59 2010'
$ echo $mydatevar | date '+%Y%m%d'
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date '+%Y%m%d' $mydatevar