On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Hi I had already changed it to do it the way you mentioned. Guess there's no way to do a second break within AWK. Thanks Guys, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list