storing todays date into a shell variable

[Ed Greshko]

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... 

You want:

TODAY=`date +%m/%d/%y`



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