Parsing date and time format - Bash - bash

Question

I have date and time format like this(yearmonthday):
20141105 11:30:00
I need assignment year, month, day, hour and minute values to variable.
I can do it year, day and hour like this:
year=$(awk '{print $1}' log.log | sed 's/^\(....\).*/\1/')
day=$(awk '{print $1}' log.log | sed 's/^.*\(..\).*/\1/')
hour=$(awk '{print $2}' log.log | sed 's/^\(..\).*/\1/')
How can I do this for month and minute?
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And I need that every line of my log file:
20141105 11:30:00 /bla/text.1
20141105 11:35:00 /bla/text.2
20141105 11:40:00 /bla/text.3
....
I'm trying read line by line this log file and do this:
mkdir -p "/bla/backup/$year/$month/$day/$hour/$minute"
mv $file "/bla/backup/$year/$month/$day/$hour/$minute"
Here is my not working code:
#!/bin/bash
LOG=/var/log/LOG
while read line
do
year=${line:0:4}
month=${line:4:2}
day=${line:6:2}
hour=${line:9:2}
minute=${line:12:2}
file=$(awk '{print $3}')
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
printf -v path "%s/%s/%s/%s/%s" $year $month $day $hour $minute
mkdir -p "/bla/backup/$path"
mv $file "/bla/backup/$path"
fi
done < $LOG

Answer 1

You don't need to call out to awk to date at all, use bash's substring operations
d="20141105 11:30:00"
yr=${d:0:4}
mo=${d:4:2}
dy=${d:6:2}
hr=${d:9:2}
mi=${d:12:2}
printf -v dir "/bla/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s/\n" $yr $mo $dy $hr $mi
echo "$dir"
/bla/2014/11/05/11/30/
Or directly, without all the variables.
printf -v dir "/bla/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s/\n" ${d:0:4} ${d:4:2} ${d:6:2} ${d:9:2} ${d:12:2}
Given your log file:
while read -r date time file; do
d="$date $time"
printf -v dir "/bla/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s/\n" ${d:0:4} ${d:4:2} ${d:6:2} ${d:9:2} ${d:12:2}
mkdir -p "$dir"
mv "$file" "$dir"
done < filename
or, making a big assumption that there are no whitespace or globbing characters in your filenames:
sed -r 's#(....)(..)(..) (..):(..):.. (.*)#mv \6 /blah/\1/\2/\3/\4/\5#' | sh

Answer 2

date command also do this work
#!/bin/bash
year=$(date +'%Y' -d'20141105 11:30:00')
day=$(date +'%d' -d'20141105 11:30:00')
month=$(date +'%m' -d'20141105 11:30:00')
minutes=$(date +'%M' -d'20141105 11:30:00')
echo "$year---$day---$month---$minutes"

Answer 3

You can use only one awk
month=$(awk '{print substr($1,5,2)}' log.log)
year=$(awk '{print substr($1,0,4)}' log.log)
minute=$(awk '{print substr($2,4,2)}' log.log)
etc

Answer 4

I guess you are processing the log file, which each line starts with the date string. You may have already written a loop to handle each line, in your loop, you could do:
d="$(awk '{print $1,$2}' <<<"$line")"
year=$(date -d"$d" +%Y)
month=$(date -d"$d" +%m)
day=$(date -d"$d" +%d)
min=$(date -d"$d" +%M)

Answer 5

Don't repeat yourself.
d='20141105 11:30:00'
IFS=' ' read -r year month day min < <(date -d"$d" '+%Y %d %m %M')
echo "year: $year"
echo "month: $month"
echo "day: $day"
echo "min: $min"
The trick is to ask date to output the fields you want, separated by a character (here a space), to put this character in IFS and ask read to do the splitting for you. Like so, you're only executing date once and only spawn one subshell.
If the date comes from the first line of the file log.log, here's how you can assign it to the variable d:
IFS= read -r d < log.log

Answer 6

eval "$(
echo '20141105 11:30:00' \
| sed 'G;s/\(....\)\(..\)\(..\) \(..\):\(..\):\(..\) *\(.\)/Year=\1\7Month=\2\7Day=\3\7Hour=\4\7Min=\5\7Sec=\6/'
)"
pass via a assignation string to evaluate. You could easily adapt to also check the content by replacing dot per more specific pattern like [0-5][0-9] for min and sec, ...
posix version so --posix on GNU sed

Answer 7

I wrote a function that I usually cut and paste into my script files
function getdate()
{
local a
a=(`date "+%Y %m %d %H %M %S" | sed -e 's/ / /'`)
year=${a[0]}
month=${a[1]}
day=${a[2]}
hour=${a[3]}
minute=${a[4]}
sec=${a[5]}
}
in the script file, on a line of it's own
getdate
echo "year=$year,month=$month,day=$day,hour=$hour,minute=$minute,second=$sec"
Of course, you can modify what I provided or use answer [6] above.
The function takes no arguments.