Inserting the date into a (t)csh array

[Fabrice Le Metayer]

rantapaa at cs.umn.edu (Erik E. Rantapaa) writes:

> While I've got your attention, I should also ask if anyone
> has a better way to do the following in tcsh:
>
>     echo "set today = (`date`)" > /tmp/.date
>     source -h /tmp/.date
>     !set:s/:/ /:s/:/ /

Try :

	% eval `date '+set today=(%a %h %d %H %M %S 19%y)'`
	% echo $today
	Thu Sep 06 18 13 08 1990

The only problem is that you don't get the "CDT" string before the year.
If you can live without it, your problem is solved.

Regards,

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