Setting environment variable to current date/time

nafan · 08-23-2004, 07:04 PM

I've been trying to find out if there is a way of setting an environment variable ($DATETIME) with the current date & time , but I've had no luck. Any pointers on how to do it would be greatfully received. It's my intention to use the variable in a bash shell script in a command similar to...

Code:

/usr/bin/make -s RELEASE="0.3.3-SVN $DATETIME"

Thanks in advance.

arvind_sv · 08-23-2004, 09:04 PM

Code:

DATETIME="`date +%d%m%y%H%M%S`"
/usr/bin/make -s RELEASE="0.3.3-SVN $DATETIME

or

Code:

DATETIME=$(date +%d%m%y%H%M%S)

or even:

Code:

/usr/bin/make -s RELEASE="0.3.3-SVN $(date +%d%m%y%H%M%S)

Please read the Bash (or some other shell's) manual, or the "Advanced Bash Scripting Howto" at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html

Arvind