On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Bogdan Taru wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I would like to make a script which tells me the date in this format:
> Sep 10.
> From the command line, it's easy done with: 'date +%b" "%d'.
> I would like the script to look like this (I know it looks stupid, but
> I'm still a newbie):
>
> DATA=date +%b" "%d
> echo DATA
>
> How can I do that?
I'm not completely clear what you want, but perhaps an alias is a simpler
solution: In the tcsh(bash has something similar)
alias date 'date +%b" "%d'
Note forward quotes, "'"
BTW if you really want to embed your two lines in a script somehow then
the tcsh requires
set DATA=`date +%b" "%d` #Note back quotes "`"
echo $DATA
Good luck,
Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
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