month in single digit

Shell Programming and Scripting
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hi all,
how do i get the month in single digit in ksh script ?? my command for date is :

/usr/bin/date +%Om/%Oe/%y | sed 's/ //g'

which returns "01/16/09" but i need the output to be "1/16/09" i.e the month without leading zero.

thanks in advance.

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/usr/bin/date +%m/%Oe/%y | sed 's/^0//g'
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If you have GNU date:

date +%-m/%e/%y

Otherwise:

date=$( date +%m/%e/%y )
echo "${date#0}"

(Though I can't imagine why anyone would want a date in such an illigocal and ambiguous format!)