Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:34:43 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Barno <barno@amadeus.demon.nl> Cc: FreeBSD questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tcsh problem Message-ID: <20040812033443.GC52078@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <A7A13568-EC05-11D8-A52A-0003939726F0@amadeus.demon.nl> References: <A7A13568-EC05-11D8-A52A-0003939726F0@amadeus.demon.nl>
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:16:43AM +0200, Barno wrote:
[...]
> but when I use it in a script like this:
> #!/bin/tcsh
> set Log = ` date -v-7d "+[%d/%m/%Y:%H:%M:%S] `
> echo $Log
Tcsh treats [ and ] as variable indexers. You need to quote them out.
Here's the corrected version:
#!/bin/tcsh
set Log="`date -v-7d '+[%d/%m/%Y:%H:%M:%S]'`"
echo "$Log"
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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