On Sunday 26 May 2002 7:37 pm, Jim Reimer - WA5RRH wrote:
> echo `date` | cut -b 25-28,12-13,15-16,18-19
>
> gives me what I want to use for the file name, but I
> can't figure out how to get it into a variable for use
> later in the script when I rename the file. I've tried
>
> variablename=
$ variablename=`echo \`date\` | cut -b 25-28,12-13,15-16,18-19`
$ vim ${variablename}
or
$ variablename=`date | cut -b 25-28,12-13,15-16,18-19`
$ vim ${variablename}
To make life simple use the formatting available with date.
eg.
$ variablename=`date +%d-%b-%Y`
$ echo ${variablename}
26-May-2002
Hope that answers your question.
Bye,
Suriya Narayanan M S
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