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Hello cielle,

Have you searched the board for date & time functionality? There are several threads that should lead you to what you want to do.


On the flip side, being AIX you can mess about...

PWD is the directory the program was run from -- not the same thing as "whatever directory my program is in". You can do cd / ; /absolute/path/to/my/program.sh to run a program inside...

What shell do you use? In case of bash there are some nice string manipulation features:

maindir=/opt/xSystem/config
upOneDir=${maindir%/*}
echo $upOneDir
/opt/xSystem

echo $mainder |awk -F/ '{gsub($NF,"");print}' |sed 's/.$//'

So "$PWD" is literal?


sed -i "s|\$PWD|....

To repeat:



Change the quotes to double quotes. You can escape the inner double quotes with \.

It's also not great to use / as the what-dya-call-it when dealing with paths.


sed -i...

Variables do not expand in single-quotes:

$ echo '$PWD'
$PWD

$ echo "$PWD"
/home/username

$

So put your sed expression in double quotes "" instead of single-quotes.