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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> which is equivalent to :
>    date +"#%a %b - %d - %Y"
> Doing this within awk is another story.. Sorry.

Got it. Originally I thought it was something to do from AWK.
I tried the string you wrote from the command line and worked.
I like your approach better. :-)

Thanks.