This also serves as a reply to ninja_byte as well. Your solutions will not work, since you ignored the fact that Sam said he was on Win2k. While Win2k does have a date program, it does not function like the *ix date.

Example:

C:\perl\bwb>mkdir `date "+%d-%B-%Y"`

C:\perl\bwb>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 34D5-1CFA

 Directory of C:\perl\bwb

01/19/2005  09:36a      <DIR>          .
01/19/2005  09:36a      <DIR>          ..
01/19/2005  09:36a      <DIR>          +%d-%B-%Y`
...
01/19/2005  09:36a      <DIR>          `date
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Now you have two new directories with stupid names. What was wrong with the strftime() solution that this is preferable?

/renz.

P.S. -

C:\perl\bwb>awk
'awk' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
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Update: Cleaned up html.
Perhaps: I should rephrase third sentence of first paragraph.. Seems as if I'm blaming the entire thing on `date` when that is not exactly the truth..
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