convert month from Aaa to xx in little script with awk

Question

I am trying to report on the number of files created on each date. I can do that with this little one liner:

ls -la foo*.bar|awk \'{print $7, $6}\'|sort|uni         


        

Answer 1

Just use the field number of your month as an index into the months array.

print months[$6]

Since ls output differs from system to system and sometimes on the same system depending on file age and you didn't give any examples, I have no way of knowing how to guide you further.

Oh, and don't parse ls.