How do I format a date in a KornShell (ksh) script to DD-MON-YYYY?
I have tried the following:
date \'+%d-%h-%Y\'
It returns
You could uppercase it yourself if caret uppercase is not supported in your environment:
date '+%d-%h-%Y' | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'
The ^ character forces uppercase in the GNU coreutils date
(at least, it does in version 6.9.92.4 of coreutils):
$ date '+%d-%^h-%Y'
04-NOV-2009
Unfortunately, ^ is not POSIX standard for date
, so you'll probably have to resort to a second command such as the tr suggested by @martin clayton, if you aren't on a GNU system.
This is what finally worked on unix(solaris).
date '+%d-%h-%Y' | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
returned: 04-NOV-2009