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Plugging Variables next to text

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Name: werd
Date: August 25, 2008 at 09:26:29 Pacific
OS: UNIX
CPU/Ram: 1024
Product: star
Comment:

I am trying to set a variable by using these commands.

read date
date +%m%d%y

i can then use

$date

and get the correct output.

Now my question, is how can i get the out put of say

ACHARGE.%m%d%y

I know i can use the command

${date}acharge]

and get

%m%d%y-acharge

but no luck getting the format

acharge%m%d%y

Thank you for your time folks.



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Response Number 1
Name: wollie
Date: August 26, 2008 at 05:22:01 Pacific
Reply:

try this:

echo acharge-`date +%m%d%y`

cheers

Wollie


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Response Number 2
Name: Jerry Lemieux
Date: August 28, 2008 at 16:53:35 Pacific
Reply:

It is as simple as date '+acharge-%m%d%y' which produces acharge-082808 as output. Forget that echo nonsense.


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