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I have a weird date/time value: 20240307105530.358753-360
I would like to make it more user friendly 2024/03/07 10:50:30 and drop the rest.
%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S
I know you can use sed for this, however, I am not familiar with sed syntax:
For example:
| rex mode=sed field=_raw "s//g"
Any sed guru's out there?
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You can indeed do this with sed and rex:
| rex mode=sed field=<yourfield> "s/(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2}).*/\1\/\2\/\3 \4:\5:\6/"
Every captured group in the first part of the sed can be referenced with a backslash+groupnumber. E.g: "\1" for group 1, "\2" for group 2. Everything not captured can be discarded. Forward slashes need to be escaped.
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You can indeed do this with sed and rex:
| rex mode=sed field=<yourfield> "s/(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2}).*/\1\/\2\/\3 \4:\5:\6/"
Every captured group in the first part of the sed can be referenced with a backslash+groupnumber. E.g: "\1" for group 1, "\2" for group 2. Everything not captured can be discarded. Forward slashes need to be escaped.
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Thank you @marnall. You are the master!
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Glad to help 🙂
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