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Old 11-19-2008
Manish4 Manish4 is offline
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use of system date in awk
This is the code i'm using but it is not displayin the date in the report.

BEGIN {
var_hdr3 = "REPORT RUN DATE"
var_date = "date +%m/%d/%Y"
printf "%s %s\n",var_hdr3 ,var_date;

exit 0;
}