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From: dmt@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: slicing the date
Message-ID: <4737@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 89 18:38:27 GMT
References: <216000010@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: dmt@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <216000010@s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>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

You might try:

	date "+%H %M %S" | read HH MM SS

	echo $HH
	echo $MM
	echo $SS


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