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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RCS and SCCS
Message-ID: <230@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 20:25:53 GMT
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In article <1207@dragon.UUCP> charles@dragon.UUCP (Charles Wolff, 602 438-3432) writes:
>In article <3494@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) wrote:
[They have a problem with SCCS, a file containing]
>	DATE_TOUCH=`date +%m%d%H%M%y`
[has the %H% recognised as an SCCS keyword.  He asked for suggestions.]

Try putting backslashes in front of the percents, thus:
	DATE_TOUCH=`date +\%m\%d\%H\%M\%y`
The shell will be happy with them, and SCCS will be put off the scent.