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Asked: 2026-05-27T13:00:08+00:00

i think this should be do-able in sed/awk, right? convert the following list to

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i think this should be do-able in sed/awk, right? convert the following list to 2011.08.01 … etc

20110801
20110802
20110803
20110804
20110805
20110808

just not smart enough to figure out how to do it

any suggestiongs?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using GNU date:

        for date in 20110801 20110802 20110803 20110804 20110805 20110808; do
            date -d "$date" +%Y.%m.%d
    done

    It barfs on invalid date.

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