--chapter1 #3 Normalizing Date Formats
#!/bin/sh
# normdate -- Normalizes month field in date specification # to three letters, first letter capitalized. A helper # function for Script #7, valid-date. Exits w/ zero if no error. monthnoToName() { # Sets the variable 'month' to the appropriate value case $1 in 1 ) month="Jan" ;; 2 ) month="Feb" ;; 3 ) month="Mar" ;; 4 ) month="Apr" ;; 5 ) month="May" ;; 6 ) month="Jun" ;; 7 ) month="Jul" ;; 8 ) month="Aug" ;; 9 ) month="Sep" ;; 10) month="Oct" ;; 11) month="Nov" ;; 12) month="Dec" ;; * ) echo "$0: Unknown numeric month value $1" >&2; exit 1 esac return 0 } ## Begin main script if [ $# -ne 3 ] ; then echo "Usage: $0 month day year" >&2 echo "Typical input formats are August 3 1962 and 8 3 2002" >&2 exit 1 fi if [ $3 -lt 99 ] ; then echo "$0: expected four-digit year value." >&2; exit 1 fi if [ -z $(echo $1|sed 's/[[:digit:]]//g') ]; then monthnoToName $1 else # Normalize to first three letters, first upper, rest lowercase month="$(echo $1|cut -c1|tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')" month="$month$(echo $1|cut -c2-3 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')" fi echo $month $2 $3 exit 0
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