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Have you read the manual page for date?

You could:-

Code:

mytime=`date +%T`

If it's not the current time you are after, but it's being read from a variable:-

Code:

print $full_data_time | read a b c d e mytime f

or more efficient in ksh

Code:

mytime="${full_date_time% *}"
mytime="${mytime##* }"

...although that's two statements.

If you're using the awk from Yoda already then probably best to adjust that rather than to read it into a variable with awk and then perform another process.

Robin

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