using awk on a variable

[Ray Parrish]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Ray Parrish wrote:
>   
>> I have the following code which is not working -
>>
>>           ReturnValue="`ls -als "$Package"`"
>>           if [[ "$ReturnValue" != "" ]]
>>                then
>>                     DateTime="`awk "$ReturnValue" { print $7, $8 }`"
>>                     echo "$DateTime"
>>                     return
>>           fi
>>     
>
> Sorry, I don't speak awk, so I can't help you with the awk problem. But 
> isn't that a bit complicated to get the date of a file using the ls 
> command and then extracting the relevant part from the output? IMHO, the 
> date command is better for this purpose:
>
> DateTime=$(date -r "$Package" "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
>
>
> Nils
>   
Thanks for the tip, I had no idea before that the installed date, and 
time of a package was available from it's properties alone. I'm not sure 
which code example I will wind up using, as they both work great.

Thanks again, Ray Parrish


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