Dan & Kipp, Thanks for the help.
Dan, looks like that was the thing to do, passing an arg to cmd. Kipp, I tried the path stuff but it wouldn't fly.. Thanks guys! Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:27 AM > To: HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1); [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: forcing use of shell command over external cmd > > > 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]
