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Originally Posted by bakunin

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One last thing: you should NOT USE BACKTICKS! Instead of

Code:

regexp=`date +"someformat"`

use

Code:

regexp="$(date +"someformat")"

I hope this helps.

bakunin

I agree wholeheartedly with this suggestion when using current shells. Unfortunately, suresh3566 hasn't told us what OS and shell is being used. If a pure Bourne shell (such as /bin/sh on Solaris systems) is being used, the preferred $(command) form of command substitution is not available.

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