Adrian Farrell wrote:
>
> Hi,
Hello,
> 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?
use POSIX qw( strftime );
my $date = strftime '%b %e', localtime;
John
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