slicing the date

[carroll at s.cs.uiuc.edu]

Allright, I can't figure this out. I'm trying to put the current system
time in my prompt. Under SysV, I can use 'cut' to pick out the seperate
hours, minutes, and seconds from 'date'. For non-SysV types, 'cut' lets
you pick out fields using either delimiter characters or absolute column
counts. I found a way to do this using Ksh (with the pattern matchers),
but it is very ugly. The question is, how can I cut up the output of
date to put the hours, minutes, and seconds into seperate variables? Thanks!

Alan M. Carroll          "And then you say,
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