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Old 10-12-2011
today should give 20111012 and does on HP-UX
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Old 10-12-2011
Code:
ant:/sm/cron/bin $ model;uname;uname -r       
9000/800/L2000-54
HP-UX
B.11.11
ant:/sm/cron/bin $ TODAY=$(date "+%Y%m%d") 
ant:/sm/cron/bin $ echo $TODAY                
20111012
ant:/sm/cron/bin $

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