Your subroutine then be able to read the output from the 'date' command. If your subroutine opened STDOUT: and wrote data to it, you could pipe the output from appx to another command:
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Your subroutine will then be able to read the output from the 'date' command. If your subroutine opened STDOUT: and wrote data to it, you could pipe the output from appx to another command: