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How to format date in KornShell script before DD-MON-YYYY?

How do I format a date in a KornShell (ksh) script on DD-MON-YYYY?

I tried the following:

date '+%d-%h-%Y'

He returns November 04, 2009 I need NOV (all caps) to be new. Can this be done with the date utility?

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This is what finally worked on unix (solaris).

 date '+%d-%h-%Y' | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]

: 04-NOV-2009

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The ^ character delays an uppercase letter in GNU coreutils date (at least in version 6.9.92.4 from coreutils):

 $ date '+%d-%^h-%Y' 04-NOV-2009

Unfortunately, ^ is not the POSIX standard for date , so you may have to resort to a second command such as tr suggested by @martin clayton if you are not using the GNU system.

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You can make it up yourself if your environment does not support capitalization:

 date '+%d-%h-%Y' | tr 'az' 'AZ'
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