Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 17:18:47 -0400 From: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin+bsd@citrin.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk, swap elements A and B, pipe a command in place of an element Message-ID: <ed91685e-18ae-c69d-0b08-03107110a035@citrin.ru> In-Reply-To: <CAJ5UdcNWej7jSjMTdZf6Rmf9-EiUBroU3HzN-1EiGZx=JSB2Vw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ5UdcNWej7jSjMTdZf6Rmf9-EiUBroU3HzN-1EiGZx=JSB2Vw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04/11/17 16:19, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> However if we have 3 elements, namely a
>
> TimeStamp Home Away
> 1 2 3
>
> We can swap 2 and 3 with above code. However I want to format $1 with
> date -r "$i" "+%a %b %d %Y %I:%M %p" and then swap $2 and $3. With
> regular BSD awk strftime command is not available. We can use for
> command to format the timestamp
echo "1491945088 x y" | awk '{ system("date -r "$1" \"+%a %b %d %Y %I:%M
%p\" | tr -d \"\n\""); print " "$3" "$2}'
Tue Apr 11 2017 05:11 PM y x
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