SUMMARY: dumb question about putting sysdate into a variable

From: <Kimberly_Agle_at_fccourts.org>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:10:11 -0400

Wow, that was fast!!! Many many thanks to the dozens who answered within
minutes! I wanted the syntax for dumping the system date into a variable.
The second suggestion I tried, from Michael Bucholz, was
today=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
It worked fine. I shouldn't have put in those double quotes.

Thanks again.
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                    05/15/01 Subject: dumb question
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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 - 18:10:42 NZST