notes/scripts/normdate
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#!/bin/bash
# normdate--Normalizes month field in date specification to three letters,
# first letter capitalized. A helper function for Script #7, valid-date.
# Exits with 0 if no error.
monthNumToName()
{
# Sets the 'month' variable to the approrpriate 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 month value $1" >&2
exit 1
esac
return 0
}
# BEGIN MAIN SCRIPT--DELETE OR COMMENT OUT EVERYTHING BELOW THIS LINE IF
# YOU WANT TO INCLUDE THIS IN OTHER SCRIPTS.
# =================
# Input validation
if [ $# -ne 3 ] ; then
echo "Usage: $0 month day year" > &2
echo "Formats are August 3 1962 and 8 3 1962" >&2
exit 1
fi
if [ $3 -le 99 ] ; then
echo "$0: expected 4-digit year value." >&2
exit 1
fi
# Is the month input format a number?
if [ -z $(echo $1|sed 's/[[:digit:]]//g') ] ; then
monthNumToName $1
else
# Normalize to first 3 letters, first upper- and then lowercase.
month="$(echo $1|cut -c1|tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')"
month="$month$(echo $1|cut -c2-3 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"
fi
echo $month $2 $3
exit 0