storing todays date into a shell variable

[Larry D Sorensen]

Have you tried:

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

You need the grave quotes around the statement that you want to run.

Larry

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:23:08 +0530 "Mulley, Nikhil"
<mnikhil at corp.untd.com> writes:
> 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... 
>  
> Thanks,
> Nikhil.
>  °v°
> /(_)\
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