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in reply to split function

$ date|awk '{print $4}'|awk -F: '{print $1$2}'|cut -c3-4 19
$ perl -e 'print( (localtime)[1], "\n" )' 19

I don't really understand awk so I might be mistaken. If you're looking for something other than minutes, consult localtime.