storing todays date into a shell variable
Rino Mardo
joroxx at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 07:14:10 UTC 2004
you need to use the double-quotes instead of single-quotes. ;-)
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:41:11 +0530, Mulley, Nikhil
<mnikhil at corp.untd.com> wrote:
> Yeah Bill, I do not want to reuse the TODAY variable external to the shell script, But what I want to say is When I echo $TODAY variable , it is not displaying the Data.
> myprompt$./storedate
> ./storedate: +%m/%d/%y: not found
> myprompt$
>
> ~Nikhil.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: $Bill Luebkert [mailto:dbecoll at adelphia.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:37 PM
> To: Mulley, Nikhil
> Cc: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: storing todays date into a shell variable
>
>
> 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...
>
> Changing the date in your env will only change it for you and any child
> processes you create. Once your shell script exits, the TODAY will
> disappear for any new scripts run.
>
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