Re: [Sccs-devel] SCCS keyword expansion issue

[thinkunix <thi...@zo...>]

Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> The classic technique... was to use extra quotes to 
> break up the strings that could be identified as SCCS keywords.  For 
> example, something along the lines of:
> 
> DATE=$(date +'%Y''%m%d-%H''%M''%S')


> Eventually I found an alternative, but roughly 
> equivalent, technique:
> 
> RCS/build.ids.sh <http://build.ids.sh>,v:tag=`date +JL-"%Y"%m"%d"."%H"%M"%S"`  # SCCS!
> 
> This uses pairs of double quotes around `%X` units within the format 
> string (and the earliest version dates back to 2004).
> 

Thanks for the quick answer.
I've tested both your suggestions and they work with Schily SCCS.

scot