This is a dumb question, but as I am really new to this Tcl
programming stuff, I would really appreciate a pointer in the right
direction.
My problem is that I am trting to exec the GNU date comand inside a
command to obtain the day of the week that a certain date falls on.
The code I am using to try this is:
set tvMonth January
set tvYear 1997
set a "date -d '1 "
set b "' +%a"
set datestr [concat $a $tvMonth $tvYear$b]
set tvDay [exec $datestr]
Now, I was hoping that tvDay would contain the day, but when I run
this piece of code I keep getting a message telling me that the
command "date -d '1 January 1997' +%a" is not a file or directory. I
have tried putting the path in the command but am still getting the
same error.
I amsorry if this is very basic stuff, or if I should not really be
placing the message in this mailing list, but I am slowly driving
myself mad trying to work out why this code will not cooperate.
Thank you for your patience and, hopefully, answers.
Simon Richardson
P.S. If this is not the correct place to be mailingthese sorts of
questions, and in an effort not to waste too many people's time, can
anyone suggest somewhere else that I could get answers to this sort of
thing from?
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