[KLUG Members] script getting date variable

[Buist Justin]

#!/bin/sh

foo=`/bin/date +"%d%m%Y"`
echo $foo

That should do it.

Justin Buist


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bill [mailto:bill@billtron.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:03 PM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: [KLUG Members] script getting date variable
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> bill hollett
> 
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