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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [gnuwin32] sed & variable %TIME% Post 302559916 by Corona688 on Wednesday 28th of September 2011 12:23:40 PM

09-28-2011

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%TIME% | command is not the same thing as echo %TIME% | command. Without the echo, nothing gets fed into sed.

On my system, the date contains . too, so you you'd want to rip that out as well.

You can simplify your sed expression into -e "s/[:,.]//g"

You can't set variables in that fashion anyway. Windows CMD doesn't have backticks. It does have many strange options to SET and FOR some of which might be useful here.

---------- Post updated at 10:17 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:10 AM ----------

'for' does have something like backticks but pipes don't work in it, and file redirection doesn't work outside of it...

---------- Post updated at 10:23 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:17 AM ----------

This kludge works.

Code:

echo "%TIME%" | sed -e "s/[:,.]//g" > file.tmp
for /F %A in (file.tmp) DO SET TIEMPO1=%A
del /F /Q file.tmp

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ctime

TIME(3F)																  TIME(3F)

NAME

       time, ctime, ltime, gmtime - return system time

SYNOPSIS

       integer function time()

       character*(*) function ctime (stime)
       integer stime

       subroutine ltime (stime, tarray)
       integer stime, tarray(9)

       subroutine gmtime (stime, tarray)
       integer stime, tarray(9)

DESCRIPTION

       Time returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured in seconds.  This is the value of the UNIX system clock.

       Ctime  converts	a  system  time  to  a	24  character ASCII string.  The format is described under ctime(3).  No 'newline' or NULL will be
       included.

       Ltime and gmtime disect a UNIX time into month, day, etc., either for the local time zone or as GMT.  The order and meaning of each element
       returned in tarray is described under ctime(3).

FILES

       /usr/lib/libU77.a

SEE ALSO

       ctime(3), itime(3F), idate(3F), fdate(3F)

4.2 Berkeley Distribution					   May 15, 1985 							  TIME(3F)