John P. Donaldson wrote:
>
> This is probably a stupid question but I'm relatively new to this.
Only stupid if unasked.
I'd have to think about the first part (and I'm in a rush right now),
but I just went through this with sed. Here's one that replaces the
word DATE with the output of date:
sed "s;DATE;`date`;g"
I use this is a Makefile for maintaining a web page.
> I'm trying to do the same thing with a sed command by changing all dates
> in a file to the current date. Right now my command looks like:
>
> sed s/'[0123][0123456789]\/.*\/199[78]'/'18\/May\/1998'/g $1 > $2
>
> I'd like to replace the '18\/May\/1998' with the date command.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> John
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