tcsh problem

[Jonathan Chen]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:16:43AM +0200, Barno wrote:
[...]
> but when I use it in a script like this:
> #!/bin/tcsh
> set Log = ` date -v-7d "+[%d/%m/%Y:%H:%M:%S] `
> echo $Log

Tcsh treats [ and ] as variable indexers. You need to quote them out.
Here's the corrected version:

    #!/bin/tcsh
    set Log="`date -v-7d '+[%d/%m/%Y:%H:%M:%S]'`"
    echo "$Log"

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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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