Well if it was unix and for some reason there where two possibilies for the same command I'd use the entire path
$date = `/usr/bin/date +%Y`; For windows not sure how that would work, maybe $date = `c:\path/to/cmd.exe date`; Perhaps, though like I said I'm not sure, I really hate windows and aviod it every chance I can :) . Dan -----Original Message----- From: HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:21 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: forcing use of shell command over external cmd Hi All, On windows, I have a script which calls gets the date from the system date command (using backticks) , or rather I would prefer it to. I have just installed mks toolkit on this machine which has it's own date command, and now this is the command getting chosen each time. How can I get it to use cmd.exe's date command, or more generally force use of the system shell's commands over an external program? Many thanks, Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
