lynx-dev Re: LYNX: how to GENERATE a url?

[Michael Warner]

On or about 14 Jul, 1999, David Combs
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> On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 02:41:52PM -0600, address@hidden wrote:

        [...]

> >     lynx `date +http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/%Y/%m/%d/index.html`

        [...]

> Works fine on solaris.
> 
> But complains about the upper-case Y on 4.x (on netcom).

Check the man page for date to find what field descriptor to
use to get the full year as a decimal number.  On the system
here, '%y' gets a 2-digit year (99), and '%Y' gets the full
year (1999).

-- 
Michael Warner
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