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I'm calling an expect script via a ksh script in cron and it is failing. The script runs fine if i run it manually. Does anyone know if it is an issue with compatibilty and if there is a way around...

I had tried this earlier and got the following error:

date: bad conversion
while executing
"exec date '+%m_%d_%y'"
invoked from within
"set DATE [exec date '+%m_%d_%y']"
(file...

Thank you for the responce. I put the following in the file:
expect -c 'set DATE [exec date +%m_%d_%y];puts "$DATE"'

but i am getting the error:

bad flag "-c": must be -glob, -regexp, -exact,...

Using expect script how can i change the date (exec date) to following format mm_dd_yy ?
In ksh i can use somthing of the nature DATE=`date '+%m_%d_%y'`

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