Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

Code:

var=`date`
str=`echo "${var}" | awk '{ printf substr($0,5,12); }'`
echo ---------------
echo $str
echo ---------------

when i am executing this i am geting result as "Jun 1 06:03"
how ever if u look at the O/P of date mcommand it looks like this

Code:

Tue Jun  1 06:03:28 EDT 2010

Please mark that there are two spaces in between June and 1 on the result of date command.

cud anyone help to keep the O/P from awk, same as that of date command.

For ref I am pasting the output again

Code:

Jun 1 06:03

op from awk

Code:

Jun  1 06:03

op from date command

Moderator's Comments:

Please use CODE tags, ty

try;

Code:

$ date +'%a %b %e %H:%M'
Tue Jun  1 12:45

Code:

[house@leonov] var=$( date ); str=${var:4:12}; echo "$str"
Jun  1 14:32

Ah, the OP didn't want week day just observed.

Code:

$ date +'%b %e %H:%M'
Jun  1 14:46