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Old 02-10-2009
Question How to remove a newline character at the end of filename
Hi All,
I have named a file with current date,time and year as follows:

month=`date | awk '{print $2}'`
date=`date | awk '{print $3}'`
year=`date | awk '{print $6}'`
time=`date +%Hh_%Mm_%Ss'`
filename="test_"$month"_"$date"_"$year"_"$time".txt"
> $filename

The file is created with a newline character at the end (after .txt) of the filename. Am not getting why this is happening.. Can u help me??

Thanks,
Amio
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Old 02-10-2009
Amio,

Not sure why you are using awk with date command. You can as well use date command as shown below.

Code:
month=`date '+%b'`
day=`date '+%d'`
year=`date '+%Y'`
time=`date '+%H%M%S'`

Use man date for more options.

Then, try to execute your script. You should have no newline characters.

HTH, Smilie

Regards,

Praveen
# 3  
Old 02-10-2009
Hi Praveen,
Thanks for ur reply.. It worked..
Many thanks..
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