[Cialug] shell script error

[Bryan Baker]

Just beat me to the punch :-)
I had just copied this line out of one of my shell scripts as a sample 
using date:

CURRENT_DOW=$(date "+%w")


On Aug 26, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Paul Gray wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:03:47PM -0500, Chris Hettinger wrote:
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> TODAY=date +%Y%m%d
>
> You need back tics or $(shell ) in the above line.
>
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