On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Dan Track wrote: > Just wondering if you could lend me a little hand. Basically I want to > rename a file from log.1 log.2 etc to log.10.36.34. The time stamp > (ignore the date) should be the last written time, so far I've got to > this stage: > > stat log | sed -n '/Modify:/p' | awk -F ' ' '{print $3}' > > so I get : > 11:01:09.000000000 > > How can I get rid of the leading 0'swithout having to pipe the output > to anotehr awk statement, is it possible to do this withing the > current awk statement? There simpler solutions but this works: stat log | awk '/Modify/ { print $3 }' | cut -d . -f 1 -- Wibble. Today is Boomtime, the 13rd day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list