On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:23, Kyle McDonald wrote: > > $curdttm = 'echo $blank |date +%Y%m%d-%H%M' > > > > I have used this on both AIX and HP-UX and it has worked great. > > Why the echo '$blank |' ???
If I remember correctly, I wrote this script originally on an AIX
machine, just the data +%Y%m%d-%H%M command would not do it unless I
attached it to something, hence the echo $blank|. I don't remember
exactly, but there was some reas I did it that way.
> just the 'date +%Y%m%d-%H%M should work.
>
> Also to answer your question, you want the backwards single quote(`)
> not the forwards one(') if you want the commands in the quotes to be
> replaced by the output of those commands.
That worked!
Thanks!
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...Rob
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