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From: carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: slicing the date
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Date: 27 Mar 89 21:34:00 GMT
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Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll    Mar 27 15:34:00 1989


Allright, I can't figure this out. I'm trying to put the current system
time in my prompt. Under SysV, I can use 'cut' to pick out the seperate
hours, minutes, and seconds from 'date'. For non-SysV types, 'cut' lets
you pick out fields using either delimiter characters or absolute column
counts. I found a way to do this using Ksh (with the pattern matchers),
but it is very ugly. The question is, how can I cut up the output of
date to put the hours, minutes, and seconds into seperate variables? Thanks!

Alan M. Carroll          "And then you say,
carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu     We have the Moon, so now the Stars..."  - YES
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