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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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Subject: Re: slicing the date
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Date: 29 Mar 89 04:47:33 GMT
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In article <216000010@s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu wrote:

>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'.

	Why bother using cut?  The SysV date command lets you format
	its output directly.

>The question is, how can I cut up the output of
>date to put the hours, minutes, and seconds into seperate variables? Thanks!

	set `date | tr ':' ' '`
	hr=$4
	min=$5
	sec=$6

	If that's not ugly enough for you, use this instead:

	expr "`date`" \: ".*\([ 	0-9][0-9]:..\):.*"


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