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hi,

I'm getting some issues while running below awk:-
I want to use the system date to get pritned on the report but not getting it
please help in this case

BEGIN
{
sysdate = substr($date,5,6)
print "WEA\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCLAIM AND APPROVAL REPORT"
print "REPORT RUN DATE:",$sysdate
print "\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThere are no No Charge ARA's to be Claimed and Approved today"
}
END

Thanks

Try this...

Code:

BEGIN
{
       "date +%d-%b-%Y" | getline d ;
       print "WEA\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCLAIM AND APPROVAL REPORT";
       print "REPORT RUN DATE: ",d;
       print "\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThere are no No Charge ARA's to be Claimed and Approved today" ;
       close("date");
}
END