echo problem

imkornhulio · 10-24-2008, 07:43 AM

I need the output of the following code in one line please help.

echo 'H,Shoes,' ; date +%Y%m%d

Right now i get output like below
H,Shoes,
20081024

I want output to look like this

H,Shoes,20081024

Please help

burschik · 10-24-2008, 08:04 AM

Code:

echo -n 'H,Shoes,' ; date +%Y%m%d

imkornhulio · 10-24-2008, 08:13 AM

Thanks for the help. I quick questiion if i want to take that output and append to another file i only add >> and the file name at the end of the code right?

echo -n 'H,Shoes,' ; date +%Y%m%d >> test.csv

Please help!

imkornhulio · 10-24-2008, 08:53 AM

Someone Please Help!!!

olilogu · 10-24-2008, 08:58 AM

You can use:
echo 'H,Shoes,' ` date +%Y%m%d`

burschik · 10-24-2008, 09:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by imkornhulio

Thanks for the help. I quick questiion if i want to take that output and append to another file i only add >> and the file name at the end of the code right?

echo -n 'H,Shoes,' ; date +%Y%m%d >> test.csv

Please help!

Not quite.

Code:

{ echo -n 'H,Shoes,' ; date +%Y%m%d; } >> test.csv

imkornhulio · 10-24-2008, 09:03 AM

Thanks a Ton

jan61 · 10-24-2008, 02:39 PM

Moin,

Quote:

Originally Posted by burschik

Code:

{ echo -n 'H,Shoes,' ; date +%Y%m%d; } >> test.csv

why not simply call

Code:

echo "H,Shoes,$(date +%Y%m%d)" >>test.csv

?

Jan

colucix · 10-24-2008, 03:41 PM

Even more simply:

Code:

date +H,Shoes,%Y%m%d >> test.csv