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07-30-2012
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set varibale to be output of a command
Hi there!  How to set varibale to be output of a command in csh. I was using Code:
set i="date+'%y%m%d'" but the output is date+'%y%m%d' and without quites and with a single quote the output is the same   Thanks in advance |
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07-30-2012
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Hi. Use back-quotes. i.e. Code:
[Scotts-MBP:~] scott% echo $0 csh [Scotts-MBP:~] scott% set X=`date '+%y'` [Scotts-MBP:~] scott% echo $X 12 [Scotts-MBP:~] scott% |
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07-30-2012
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