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I have a file containing many columns of text, including a timestamp along the lines of Fri Jan 02 18:23 and I need to convert that date into MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM format. I have been trying to use the standard `date' tool with awk getline to do the conversion, but I can't quite figure out how to pass the fields into the 'date' command in the format it expects (quoted with " or 's,) as getline needs the command string enclosed in quotes too. Something like "date -d '$1 $2 $3 $4' +'%D %H:%M'" | getline var Now that I think about it, I guess what I'm really asking is how to embed awk variables into a string.
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