Hi,
running the command:
date|awk '{print $2,$3}'
provides me with the output I require (i.e. the month and day, May 6).
however, when I try to call this from within a perl script:
system("date|awk '{print $2,$3}'");
I get:
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
any ideas? alternatively, does anyone have another way to generate the date
in this format that I can assign to a variable?
thanks,
Adrian
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