: # edate - Print (english) date # Heiner Steven (heiner.steven@odn.de) # # Print date in the format # Monday October 2, 1995 # Date=`LANG=C date "+%A %B %e, %Y"` # $1=weekday (0=Sunday), $2=day of month, $3=month, $4=year date "+%w %m %d %y" | awk ' BEGIN { split ("Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday", Day) split ("January February March April May June July August September October November December", Month) } { printf "%s %s %d, 19%d\n",Day [$1 + 1],Month [$2 + 0],$3,$4 % 100 } '