date format - spaces not "0" in day

[ian diddams]

I am using

date +"%b %d"

to return a string something like

Mar 08

BUT

what I really need is it to return

Mar 8

i.e. the leading zero on the date replaced by a space.

I could use a simple sed on the string but the problem I then have is that it would also turn "Mar 10" into "Mar 1 " - which is not what I need.

any ideas to do what I require?

cheers

ian

[Joe Makowiec]

On 08 Mar 2013 in linux.redhat, ian diddams wrote:

> I am using
>
> date +"%b %d"
>
> to return a string something like
>
> Mar 08
>
> BUT
>
> what I really need is it to return
>
> Mar 8
>
> i.e. the leading zero on the date replaced by a space.
>

> any ideas to do what I require?

[joe@myserver ~]$ man date
DATE(1) User Commands

NAME
date - print or set the system date and time

SYNOPSIS
date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
...
FORMAT controls the output. Interpreted sequences are:
...
%d day of month (e.g., 01)
%e day of month, space padded; same as %_d
...
By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. The following
optional flags may follow `%':
- (hyphen) do not pad the field
_ (underscore) pad with spaces

> I could use a simple sed on the string but the problem I then have
> is that it would also turn "Mar 10" into "Mar 1 " - which is not
> what I need.

Could you use a regex which specifies a leading 0 followed by a digit?

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