On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 09:14 +0100, Dan Track wrote: > 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. As I said before, use printf: stat log | awk '/Modify/ { printf "%.8s\n", $3 }' poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list