Thank you but i don't know how to put the hostname in awk program eg: my program is "program.awk awk -f program.awk file.txt Thank you again BEGIN { RS = "\n" ; FS = "|" } { print "Name:", $9 print "Created: `date`" print "from: `hostname`" print "" } --- Lou Spironello <lspironello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hope this helps. > > echo "test" | awk -v mydate=`date +%Y%m%d` '{printf > "standard input is > %s\nmy variable value is %s\n",$1,mydate}' > > :-) > > > Regards, > Lou > > On Nov 21, 2007 12:22 PM, ann kok > <annkok2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > how can I print date in this date format? 20071122 > > > > Can command "date, hostname" run in awk program > > itself? > > > > program.awk > > > > BEGIN { RS = "\n" ; FS = "|" } > > > > { > > print "Name:", $9 > > print "Created: `date`" > > print "from: `hostname`" > > print "" > > } > > > > Thank you > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Be a better pen pal. > > Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See > how. > > http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs