logging date and time to file ? new to awk

[Delphiwhat]

Hi all

Could someone show me how to log
the system date, time and a bit of text to a log file. I basically want to open the same log file each time and write something like

'AUG 06 2004 13:41 HRS files>20!@'


so over a period of time I have 1 log file with a complete historical record of when my directory has had more than 20 files in it.

thanks

S

 

[vgersh99]

BEGIN {
  date="date '+%b %d %Y %H:%M HRS files>20!@'"
  logFile="delph.txt"
  cmd=date " >>" logFile
}

{
   system(cmd);
   close(cmd);
}

vlad
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[LKBrwnDBA]

I know is AWK forum, but why not issue comand directly?

date '+%b %d %Y %H:%M HRS files>20!@'>>logfile

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