FVWM: Use of PipeRead or how do you get date into a button?

From: Bob Taylor <brtaylor_at_qtpi.lakewood.ca.us>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:52:15 -0800

I would like to have todays day and date displayed in an FvwmButton. I
have tried:

*FvwmButtons(2x1,Swallow "" PipeRead 'date -d today "+%a %b %-d %Y"')

and various pertubations. I'm currently running fvwm-2.0.43 and I'm out of
ideas! Pointers to doc's on PipeRead welcome!

Thanks in advance.

Bob

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Received on Wed Jan 29 1997 - 23:53:21 GMT