From: G Anna <drguruolai@eth.net>
To: Jim Reimer - WA5RRH <wa5rrh@arrl.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: trouble setting shell variable
Date: 26 May 2002 20:41:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sn4f2bbz.fsf@wobble.eth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205261406.g4QE6b9N012213@franklin.icok.net>
> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 09:07:10 -0500
> From: Jim Reimer - WA5RRH <wa5rrh@arrl.net>
> Subj: trouble setting shell variable
>
> I'm trying to rename files based on what time it is *now*....
>
> echo `date` | cut -b 25-28,12-13,15-16,18-19
Why are you echoing? Simply pass the output of date to cut.
> gives me what I want to use for the file name, but I
> can't figure out how to get it into a variable for use
> later in the script when I rename the file. I've tried
>
> variablename=
$ b=`date | cut -b 25-28,12-13,15-16,18-19`
$ echo $b
2038422002
$
HTHs
anna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-26 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-26 14:07 trouble setting shell variable Jim Reimer - WA5RRH
2002-05-26 15:11 ` G Anna [this message]
2002-05-26 15:58 ` Suriya Narayanan M S
2002-05-26 16:44 ` Jim Reimer - WA5RRH
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