Sorted, I had a leading space before the 0 in the sed statement should have been sed 's/0/ /g' Thanks to all that replied, ( besides Rafter Rich - you know who you are ! ) Hi All, Quickie why does first strip leading zeros off my date string with the sed yet second does not ? obebim1:/root # print $(date "+%Y %m %d") |sed 's/ 0/ /g' 2005 8 3 obebim1:/root # print $(date "+%H") |sed 's/ 0/ /g' 09 < - i just want 9 I just want to get the single digit numerical hour from date rather than 01 02 03 etc... when in early hous Cheers laurence ..For low fares and great deals on hotels, car hire and travel insurance visit http://www.aerlingus.com of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited.If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete the material. ******************************************************************************* _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Aug 3 10:18:16 2005
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