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Old 03-08-2010
Extracting variables from echo

Hello all.

I can not remember the command to extract a variable from the date command.

Basically what I need to do is to store the values of date in variable and rearrange them. I can not remember the command or the syntax to do so.

so..

date
Mon Mar 8 06:57:19 GMT 2010
$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6

then write files like...

echo "$3$2$6 $4" >> file


I'm sure this is a simple solve... I keep wanting to go back to sed, but I know that's not right. I'm wanting to use /usr/sh

Thanks
 

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Identical to the date(3) function except that the time returned is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). PARAMETERS
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