[Charlug] Script Question

[Michael Wescott]

michael at prismbiz.com said:
> I have a script that grep's a file, looking for a date string,
> specifically:

> FILEDATE=`date +"%b  %-d"`

> This command works wonderfully up to the 10th of the month, when I
> have to use:

> FILEDATE=`date +"%b %-d"`  (only 1 space between %b and %-d) 

Why not use this?

	FILEDATE=`date +"%b %_d"`
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	Mike Wescott
	Wescott_Mike at EMC.COM