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

To parse AIX istat, I use:

istat .profile | grep "^Last modified" | read dummy dummy dummy  mon day time dummy yr dummy
echo "M: $mon D: $day T: $time Y: $yr"
-> Month: Mar Day: 12 Time: 12:05:36 Year: 2012

To parse AIX istat month, I use this two-liner AIX 6.1 ksh 88:

monstr="???JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec???"
mon="Oct" ; hugo=${monstr%${mon}*} ; hugolen=${#hugo} ; let hugol=hugolen/3 ; echo "Month: $hugol"
-> Month: 10

1..12 : month name ok

If lt 1 or gt 12 : month name not ok

Instead of "hugo" use speaking names ;-))