Use of system date in awk

Manish4 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-19-2008

i'm facing problems in using system date in a awk script...
it should display the date in a report in mm/dd/yy format..
please help me in this case..

thanks

Annihilannic · #2 (**permalink**) 11-19-2008

What problems are you having? Show us your code and any error message(s).

Manish4 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-19-2008

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;
}

Annihilannic · #4 (**permalink**) 11-19-2008

In that code awk has no way of knowing that "REPORT RUN DATE" is a string, but "date +%m/%d/%Y" is a command, so you need to handle them differently.

Try this:

Code:

"date +%m/%d%y" | getline var_date

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