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build a string

Claudio_17 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:33:00 GMT

Hi,

how can build a string like this :

ENDED: Sat Apr 12

Re: build a string

Pete Randall — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:35:47 GMT

echo "ENDED: " `date`

Pete

Re: build a string

Tom Geudens — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:36:16 GMT

Hi,
echo "ENDED: $(date +'%a %b %d')"
Regards,
Tom

Re: build a string

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:36:27 GMT

echo "ENDED: Sat Apr 12"
works too!

Re: build a string

Chris Vail — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:36:59 GMT

STRING="ENDED: Sat Apr 12"

Perhaps your question is badly worded, though: this is too easy. Here's another:

DATE="Sat Apr 12"
STATUS="ENDED:"
STRING="$STATUS $DATE"

Chris

Re: build a string

Claudio_17 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:37:13 GMT

.. i want add that if , for example is 1th of April , I need string ENDED: Sat Apr 1 and
not ENDED: Sat Apr 1 ( note position of numer one )

Re: build a string

Caesar_3 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:37:31 GMT

Hello!

I'm not so shure what you mean?
If you want to ptint this string it's like:
print "ENDED: Sat Apr 12"
If you want to take the date and format it
as you want you can use the "date" command
with parameter that spesify the format of
the output, check the man for the date
to see the parameters.

Caesar

Re: build a string

Massimo Bianchi — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:40:08 GMT

Hi Claudio,
try this:

DATE=$( date +"%a %b %e" )

STRING="ENDED: "$DATE

echo $STRING

Massimo

Re: build a string

Tom Geudens — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:40:49 GMT

Hi,
That would be
echo "ENDED: $(date +'%a %b %e')"
Regards,
Tom

Re: build a string

Andreas Voss — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:42:14 GMT

Hi,

try this one:

echo "ENDED: $(date '+%a %b %d')"

Regards

Re: build a string

Claudio_17 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:43:45 GMT

Sorry , I try explain better : the date is not a costant ; again , this string is what fbackup write in /var/adm/fbackupfiles/dates using -u option ; I want check this string to be absolutely sure fbackup terminated correctly ; so I need build a string every day . A bit problem is that when day is between 1-9 there are 2 blank spaces between the end on month ..

Re: build a string

Dario_1 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:45:41 GMT

Hi:

Try this:

DATE=`date +'%a %b %e'`
STATUS="ENDED:"
STRING="$STATUS $DATE"

echo $STRING

Regards,

Dario

Re: build a string

Massimo Bianchi — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:49:47 GMT

Hi Claudio,
quoting from "man date"

%e Day of the month as a two-character decimal number with
leading space fill [" 1"-"31" ]. For example, 12.

so %e should fulfill your requirements !

HTH,
Massimo

Re: build a string

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:58:25 GMT

Hi Claudio:

If you want to align a day value like one as ' 1' and not '1' use a formatted print, thusly:

# printf "ENDED: %s %s %2d\n" $(date +'%a') $(date +'%b') $(date +'%d')

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: build a string

Bill Douglass — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:59:56 GMT

If you install the GNU date program, you can specify the date you want displayed with the -d option:

echo ENDED: `./date -d 4/1/2003 +"%a %b %_d"`

See the archive at

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/sh_utils-2.0/

Re: build a string

Dario_1 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:00:52 GMT

Claudio:

Replace the %e for %d in my answer. This was taken from the date man pages.

%d Day of the month as a two-digit decimal number [01-31]. For
example, 12.

Regads,

Dario

Re: build a string

Claudio_17 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:03:36 GMT

Thanks all ver much .

Sorry Tom ..for only 3 pts ; your was first resolutive answer .