Need a hand from someone with programming skills

[incisor]

Hi

i am in need of a shell script that will take 5000 line by line entries and convert the entry to unixtime.

example

27 April, 2003

converted and added to the line in unixtime format after a tab or space = space

eg.

27 April, 2003 = 1050883201

if you can write it or know where it exists already please let me know....

TIA

[matbor]

something like this :!:

http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8472/ur0307g/

Matt.