Setting date variable

Jack Stone antennex at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 2 16:08:46 PDT 2006


>From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
>To: Jack Stone <antennex at hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Setting date variable
>Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:28:39 +0100
>
>Jack Stone wrote:
>
> > I could use the "date" command to do: 2006-09.txt or maybe 2006-Sep.txt
> > but I haven't found a simple way to set a variable make date spell out
> > the whole name of the month to match the file name.
>
>date +"%Y-%B.txt"
>
>See strftime(3) for all of the %-escapes you can use.
>
>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew

Thanks, Matthew. I knew it would be some simple way!

striftime is now my friend!

Happy Trails,
Jack

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