Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 02:41:30 -0400 From: drifter@stratos.net To: Dave Bender <bendede@startribune.com>, Design at Carolina Marketing <design@carolinamarketing.com> Cc: "faq@FreeBSD.ORG" <faq@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unix commands Message-ID: <19980614024130.B4548@stratos.net> In-Reply-To: <01BD96B4.12894E70@MANNY>; from Dave Bender on Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 09:04:59AM -0500 References: <01BD96B4.12894E70@MANNY>
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On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 09:04:59AM -0500, Dave Bender wrote:
> One solution would be:
>
> $ date | awk '{print "mv yourfile $2.html"}' | sh
>
>
> date returns the date and pipes it to awk, which prints your command,
> sticking in field 2 ($2), which is the month. Then the whole thing
> gets fed to a shell, which executes it.
>
How about:
$ mv yourfile `date | awk '{print $2$3-$4.html}'`
or alternatively:
$ mv yourfile $(date | awk '{print $2$3-$4.html}')
The latter looks nicer, and is supported by the FreeBSD /bin/sh,
although I think older versions of the Bourne Shell don't recognize it.
-Drifter
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