I need to extract the current date and use it in my output
file name. How do I convert:
current_date =” 2-Apr-18”
to a fix length, zero-filled date string: cDate=“02-Apr-18”?
let a = SPAWN("gdate --date='2-Apr-18' +'%d-%b-%y'")
define symbol cDate `a`
The SPAWN() function runs the shell command and gets its output. I use the command "gdate" above for the GNU version of the "date" command. On Linux, use "date". To check if it's the right date command, look at "date --version".