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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with the date help Post 24094 by peter.herlihy on Friday 5th of July 2002 12:34:14 AM
Old 07-05-2002
I'm not sure why you are getting a differrence.

If you have a file called "GA0307.VAR" ...... then you want the date expression to be equal to 0307 - rather than 307.

That is using %d....which is what you are using. Why do you think that your script is returning 307.

insert this line in your script just after the variable exporting.

echo "$pfad_work/GA`date +%d%m`.VAR"

This will echo the GA0307 that you are looking for. Please try this to let me know what returns after this echo - and if you still think it is looking for GA307.

You'd have to use %e to get 307...and then it would be preceeded with a space...which is not great for filenames.
%d =day of month [1,31]; single digits are preceded by 0
%e =day of month [1,31]; single digits are preceded by a space
Last edited by peter.herlihy; 07-05-2002 at 01:39 AM..
 

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