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From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@serv.net>
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drifter@stratos.net (drifter@stratos.net) writes:
| 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
| > [...]
| 
| How about:
| 
| $ mv yourfile `date | awk '{print $2$3-$4.html}'`
| 
| or alternatively:
| 
| $ mv yourfile $(date | awk '{print $2$3-$4.html}')
| [...]

You know, the FreeBSD date command does support a strftime capability, so it
might be more straightforward to write

	mv yourfile `date "+yourfile.%m"`

							---Ken

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