Originally Posted by cjones

Thanks for the help... but when I cut/paste just those lines into a bourne shell script I get a 'bad substitution' error message. Here's my simple little script:

#!/bin/sh

day=`date +%d`
dt=`date +%b`" "${day#0}
grep "$dt.*fail" /var/adm/SYSLOG

I figure I'm missing something simple.

-chris