build a string

[Claudio_17]

Hi,

how can build a string like this :

ENDED: Sat Apr 12

[Pete Randall]

echo "ENDED: " `date`



Pete

[Tom Geudens]

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

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

echo "ENDED: Sat Apr 12"
works too!

[Chris Vail]

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

[Claudio_17]

.. 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 )

[Caesar_3]

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

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi Claudio,
try this:

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

STRING="ENDED: "$DATE

echo $STRING

Massimo

[Tom Geudens]

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

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

try this one:

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

Regards

[Claudio_17]

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 ..

[Dario_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Try this:

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

echo $STRING

Regards,

Dario

[Massimo Bianchi]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Bill Douglass]

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/

[Dario_1]

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

[Claudio_17]

Thanks all ver much .

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