Hi,

I am quite new to Unix (Korn Shell) scripting, having learned mostly
from looking at existing scripts.

I am working on a ksh script in which I would like to assign some string
values (including a date stamp) to a variable that will be used as a
file name. Here is what I want to do:

myfilename='string1' + date "+%EY%m%d" + '.txt'

The variable myfilename would hopefully become: 'string120010424.txt',
but I am not getting this result - I am aware that the plus(+) sign is
not the proper concatenation character but can't seem to find the right
one. I have checked the ksh man pages and searched deja.com but have not
been able to figure this out.

Any hints would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Dave
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:56:40 -0600, David Ward

myfilename=string1`date "+%EY%m%d"`.txt

Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
(Lew_Pitc...@td.com)

(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)

In article <3ae5bf59.714398...@news21.on.aibn.com>,

Even simpler:

myfilename=`date +string1%EY%m%d.txt`

I'm not sure why people are always so reluctant to put literal text in
date's format parameter.  The only problem would be if string1 were a
variable, in which case you have to be careful in case its value contains a
'%' character.

--
Barry Margolin, bar...@genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:17:18 GMT, Barry Margolin <bar...@genuity.net>
wrote:

Gosh! I never thought of that.

Thanks, Barry.

I learn something new every day ;-)

Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
(Lew_Pitc...@td.com)

(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)

Lew and Barry,

Thanks very much for your solutions! Both give me exactly what I was
looking for.

Regards,

Dave