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Old 08-02-2005
radhika radhika is offline
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Could you pl. see why if I put $filedate in the following command it does not work. I need to get filedate value in 14 char format.

# assigns CURRENT time to the variable 'fdate'
fdate=`$filedate +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`

If you can help me resolve this it solve my problem.

ThankYou,
Radhika.