Hello -tb,

You just need to put slashes before '%': $(date "+\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M\%S")

Regards,
Igor

Sunday, January 23, 2011, 4:47:42 PM, you wrote:

> I'm trying to get the output of $(date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S") in a custom
> script.  Scalr interprets the date format string as a custom
> variables. When I go to run the script on a role, I get the following
> parameters:

> Y
> d
> M


> Which is obviously not what I want. I've tried wrapping the characters
> with quotes $(date "+%Y""%m""%d""%H""%M""%S"), hoping that it would
> break Scalr's parameter detection, but I get parameters like, Y"".

> Anyone have any ideas on how I can get my formatted date?

> Thanks for the help!




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