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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting reading a file extracting information writing to a file Post 302563895 by vbe on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 11:08:38 AM
Old 10-12-2011
At the first line:
Code:
 today=`date +%c%m%d | cut -c24-31`
 echo ${today}

what should it display?
When I try (OK AIX 4.2.1...) I get:
Code:
page:/etc $  today=`date +%c%m%d | cut -c24-31`
page:/etc $  echo ${today}
11012

Is that what you want? (I would have expected 111012...)
If its 111012 then why not simply:
Code:
page:/etc $ TODAY=$(date "+%y%m%d")
page:/etc $ echo $TODAY
111012

Ah Im using ksh...
 

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