Bash script and two variables
 

Hi

I use a bash script:

And i want on the outpout to have inside the date and time the word Time so i will not get all numbers together....

like this:

But it seems that it doesn't like the _Time_ as it is not working with it there and when i remove it is fine...

How can i do this?

Thanks

Your issue is that an underscore is part of valid variable name, hence when you pass the string to tar it looks like:
As you can see from the colours, you have no variable called $DATE_Time_

When you have additional parts that need to be attached though, bash has the curly brace enclosure to assist with sectioning off the variable names.
So you can use:
Now this will only look for $DATE and will append _Time_.

The curly brace enclosure can actually be used around all variables all the time. It does make your code cleaner however to only use them when required.

you can also write:

Thanks both of you :)

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As a quick note on convention, all caps is generally reserved for environment variables. It's somewhat frowned upon to use names in all caps for regular variables in a script, because it can lead to confusion. Instead, regular variables should be lower case or mixed case.

You could also set the variables apart with quotation marks, for example: