awk and date command

[Lou Spironello]

Hope this helps.

echo "test" | awk -v mydate=`date +%Y%m%d` '{printf "standard input is
%s\nmy variable value is %s\n",$1,mydate}'

:-)


Regards,
Lou

On Nov 21, 2007 12:22 PM, ann kok <annkok2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> how can I print date in this date format? 20071122
>
> Can command "date, hostname" run in awk program
> itself?
>
> program.awk
>
>     BEGIN { RS = "\n" ; FS = "|" }
>
>     {
>           print "Name:", $9
>           print "Created: `date`"
>           print "from: `hostname`"
>           print ""
>     }
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
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