Aha, I found it. I was trying to get the current timestamp and the basename of the called script
[-date?'$( date "+%a, %d %b %Y, %T %Z" )' -- now] [+NAME?'$( basename $0 )' --- test command line arguments] If I remove the date and replace with [+NAME?test --- test command line arguments] The bolding (\b) and italicizing (\a) works. Since the whole output is in fixed length font, it's hard to tell if the (\v) is working. I tried the (\f), eg. \f date "+%a, %d %b %Y, %T %Z" \f, but nothing came out. One thing I was thinking about was showing in the IMPLEMENTATION the last modify timestamp of the script (not all of this, just the mtime): >stat -x test.ksh File: "test.ksh" Size: 4338 FileType: Regular File Mode: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 501/ ericdp) Gid: ( 20/ staff) Device: 14,5 Inode: 337712 Links: 1 Access: Mon Feb 8 09:00:18 2010 Modify: Mon Feb 8 08:58:29 2010 Change: Mon Feb 8 08:58:29 2010 But I guess I wont be able to. Thanks for all your help. I appreciate it. Eric _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
