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  From: Andrew Lord <andrewlord@internode.on.net>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 00:44:04 +0930

bash & yank

Hello all,

Just wondering if anyone has a handle on the use of yank under bash.

I would like to extract 3 fields from the date function, to use within a bash 
script.

Under bash, if I do: 

#!/bin/bash
date
day=yank-2th-arg
month=yank-1th-arg
year=yank-5th-arg
echo "This is the day $day"
echo "This is the month $month"
echo "This is the year $year"


 . . . then I just get  . ..

	This is the day yank-2th-arg
	This is the month yank-1th-arg
	This is the year yank-5th-arg

man bash hasn't been a lot of help in the use of yank so I'd much appreciate a 
any suggestions on this one.

Cheers,

Andrew Lord

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