storing todays date into a shell variable
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Dec 16 07:21:20 UTC 2004
Mulley, Nikhil wrote:
> Hi ,
> I wanna have a shell script which puts the today's date into a shell variable and later use the Shell Variable for other reasons,
> I have been using like this..
>
> #!/bin/sh
> TODAY=date '+%m/%d/%y'
> echo $TODAY
> Can any one tell me what could be wrong in this...
You want:
TODAY=`date +%m/%d/%y`
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