From a linux prompt I can issue a date command and pipe it to an awk in result getting a single number. 

/bin/date | awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "}{print $3}'

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In result I get a value of "18", today's day of the month.

I want to capture that single value in my script but it seems when I add a pipe to my command it doesn't work. Here is a snippet of the code: 

$day = `/bin/date | awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "}{print $3}'`;
print $day;

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When this code is run I get "Fri Jun 18 11:48:34 EDT 2010".

How do I get the single value of 18? The above examples are hypothetical, I know there are lots of date modules/packages out there available, I am concern about using pipes in my system calls. Thanks. T

In reply to system call (backticks) with pipes by papai

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