AWK in 4.X different from 5.X?

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Sun Mar 27 14:37:57 PST 2005


On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 12:09:03PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Mario Hoerich wrote:
> 
> >>Now I just wonder how to get date in my output. :-(
> >
> >Well, if nothing else helps there's always system("date").
> >However, you could also install lang/gawk.
> 
> Since this was from a shell script I did
> date | awk '{print "#"$1 " " $2 "-" $3 "-" $6}'

How about:
	date +"#%a %b - %d - %Y"
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}


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