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Old 10-29-2008
help sending the date in an email
Hi all, I'm new to the forums. Let me start off by saying UNIX is great to use and I enjoy using it. That being said I am just learning how to use it in college and I need help with an assignment. The assignment is I have to use crontab to find out when my teacher logs in on the upcoming weekend and email him when he comes on telling him what time he came on at. At the moment I have everything worked out so that when he logs in then I will send him an email that says "Hey, you're on now!" but I have no idea how to put the time and date into it. I pretty much just want to send the output of the date command (eg. Wed Oct 29 22:00:55 EDT 2008) so that my final email will look something like this:

Hey Scott, you logged in on Sat Nov 1 23:38:46 EDT 2008.

How would I go about doing that?
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Old 10-30-2008
See #6 on this page.
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Old 10-31-2008
sorry, i didnt think this would qualify as that, but now that i think about it more i can see that it does. regardless, i figured it out on my own, thx.
 
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