[OT] Awk question

[Dan Track]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> 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