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Old 01-24-2012
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Originally Posted by aliyesami
Corona I heard you say twice but iam not understanding where to put quotes can you please show me ?
Smilie

There's only one place in your entire line that any single quotes are used.

Those are the ones I am talking about, the ones that need to be replaced with double-quotes.

You also need to change any " inside your perl with \".
# 9  
Old 01-24-2012
Shell equivalent...
Code:
var=$( date -d @$F2 +%m%d%y )

--ahamed

---------- Post updated at 09:36 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:33 AM ----------

Try to understand what everyone is saying...
Code:
var=`perl -MPOSIX -le "print strftime(\"%m%d%y\",localtime($F2))"`

--ahamed
# 10  
Old 01-24-2012
Thanks everyone !
# 11  
Old 01-25-2012
Use of environment variables inside a script:
Code:
~/$ export F2
 ~/$ perl -MPOSIX -le 'print strftime ("%m%d%y",localtime ($ENV{F2}))'

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