dumb question

From: <Kimberly_Agle_at_fccourts.org>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:45:45 -0400

Hello managers,

I'm trying to do something relatively trivial and it's driving me nuts.
All I want to do is dump the system date into a variable so I can use it in
a filename. I tried today < `date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`, but then there's
nothing in the today variable. Can somebody tell me what little thing I'm
overlooking?

Thanks....
Received on Tue May 15 2001 - 17:46:11 NZST