[KLUG Members] script getting date variable

[Bruce Smith]

> I want to have a shell script create a file whose name includes the date.
> 
> The script currently does everything but get the date.  I could grab the output
> of the date command, but that looks wonky.  How can I get a DDMMYYYY or
> something similar?

Piece of cake:

  date +%d%m%Y

See the man page for date, you can format the output almost any way.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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