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From: grs@alobar.ATT.COM (Gregg Siegfried)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RCS and SCCS
Summary: Unwanted keyword expansion
Keywords: sccs keywords
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Date: 2 Aug 88 11:47:48 GMT
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In article <1207@dragon.UUCP> charles@dragon.UUCP (Charles Wolff, 602 438-3432) writes:

>	DATE_TOUCH=`date +%m%d%H%M%y`
>
>when we checked it into and back out of the sccs source base however,
>something happened... sccs saw %H% in the middle of the line and decided
>that was an SCCS significant string... so on checking out the file,
>converted it to the current date in MM/DD/YY format.  Oops... if anybody
>has any brilliant suggestions for how to get around this, they'd be
>welcome...

I experienced this in a C program about a year ago .. It can be the
source of some really interesting results.  I got around it by using 
backslashes.

DATE_TOUCH=`date +%m\%d\%H\%M\%y` should do the trick..


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