I got it working. Thanks again. The problem turned out to a mind fart on
my part. ;)
Nancy
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:35:55PM -0700, Nancy Corbett wrote:
> >
> > The first one, however, within the
> > sed statement, is not returning the current date within the output file.
> > It's replacing DATE with "$1". Where's it getting that? Sheesh!
>
> hmm, I have no idea why that is :)
> I just tried it on my 'puter and it works flawlessly...
>
> You might try putting a "set -x" on a single line at the beginning of
> the script to switch on debugging mode. It'll then print step by step
> what it's doing. The output may not be the most trivial to interpret
> when using 'eval's, but I guess you'll somehow figure it out ;)
> At least, you might get an idea where the '$1' is sneaking in...
>
> A couple of 'echo's of intermediate values might also help.
>
> If that doesn't get you any further, don't hesitate to post again
> *exactly what you have* (often it's only a single char...) -- I'm sure
> we'll get this worked out...
>
> - Almut
>
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