storing todays date into a shell variable

Mulley, Nikhil mnikhil at corp.untd.com
Thu Dec 16 07:11:11 UTC 2004


Yeah Bill, I do not want to reuse the TODAY variable external to the shell script, But what I want to say is When I echo $TODAY  variable , it is not displaying the Data.
myprompt$./storedate
./storedate: +%m/%d/%y: not found
myprompt$

~Nikhil.

-----Original Message-----
From: $Bill Luebkert [mailto:dbecoll at adelphia.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:37 PM
To: Mulley, Nikhil
Cc: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: storing todays date into a shell variable


Mulley, Nikhil wrote:

> Hi ,
> I wanna have a shell script which puts the today's date into a shell
> variable and later use the Shell Variable for other reasons,
> I have been using like this..
>  
> #!/bin/sh
> TODAY=date '+%m/%d/%y'
> echo $TODAY
> Can any one tell me what could be wrong in this...

Changing the date in your env will only change it for you and any child
processes you create.  Once your shell script exits, the TODAY will
disappear for any new scripts run.

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