Help with BASH Commands

rridler · 04-16-2004, 11:32 AM

I am wanting to get the system date and pass it into a variable to use in other places in the script.

I have been able to set the variable name and pass text into it, but not the information returned by the date command.

Can anyone help me with this?

Ridler

sessine · 04-16-2004, 12:42 PM

http://linuxcommand.org/wss0050.php#assign

might help

mikshaw · 04-16-2004, 02:51 PM

You can format the date command to return strings in various formats.
for example:
> TODAY=`date +%d%m`
> echo $TODAY
1604

rridler · 04-16-2004, 04:43 PM

Thank you very much, it worked.