[Cialug] shell script error

[Bryan Baker]

Or, to re-do your line:

TODAY=$(date "+%Y%m%d")

Try that, it should work as expected.

On Aug 26, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Bryan Baker wrote:
> 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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