From: "Traeder, Philipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > running the command:
> > date|awk '{print $2,$3}'
> >
> > provides me with the output I require (i.e. the month and day, May
> > 6).
> >
> > any ideas? alternatively, does anyone have another way to
> > generate the date
> > in this format that I can assign to a variable?
> >
>
> Anyway - using a system call for getting the date look like overkill
> to me. I'd use something like this:
>
> my (undef, undef, undef, $mday, $mon) = localtime();
I would use
my ($mday, $mon) = (localtime())[3,4];
Both versions are of course just as good :-)
> printf "Today is %s $mday\n",
> (qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec))[ $mon ];
>
> See perldoc -f localtime for detailed information.
Jenda
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