storing todays date into a shell variable

[Mike Wooding]

--- Rino Mardo <joroxx at gmail.com> wrote:

> you need to use the double-quotes instead of single-quotes. ;-)

 No, he need the back-quote:
       TODAY=`date +%m/%d/%y`
 or the laternate form:
       TODAY=$(date +%m/%d/%y)

> 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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