slicing the date

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <216000010 at s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll at s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Allright, I can't figure this out. I'm trying to put the current system
>time in my prompt. Under SysV, I can use 'cut' to pick out the seperate
>hours, minutes, and seconds from 'date'. For non-SysV types, 'cut' lets
>you pick out fields using either delimiter characters or absolute column
>counts. I found a way to do this using Ksh (with the pattern matchers),
>but it is very ugly. The question is, how can I cut up the output of
>date to put the hours, minutes, and seconds into seperate variables? Thanks!

Using 'cut'? Why? Why not just pick a format from the repertoire of the
'date' command, then use the /bin/sh built-in "set" to extract variables?


set `date "+%H %M %S"` ; echo $1 $2 $3

Or maybe you want 

TIME = `date "+%H:%M:%S"`

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