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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Keeping padding in a date field Post 302275167 by radoulov on Friday 9th of January 2009 12:17:42 PM
Old 01-09-2009
Just quote the identifier:

Code:
bash-3.2.48(21)[~]$ CURRENT_DATE="$(date +"%a %b %e")"
bash-3.2.48(21)[~]$ echo $CURRENT_DATE 
Fri Jan 9
bash-3.2.48(21)[~]$ echo "$CURRENT_DATE"
Fri Jan  9

 

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