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Command not found error

Hi,

i'm attempting to run the following script but i've been presented with errors i'm not familiar with. can some please point out whats wrong, thanks!

script:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#Purpose: syslog like logging for our scripts



$MYDATE=`date "+%b %d %T"`

$MYHOST=`hostname`

$MYSCRIPT=`basename $0`



$MYMESSAGE="Successful"





echo "$MYDATE $MYHOST $MYSCRIPT $MYMESSAGE"

error:

Code:

=Sep: command not found

=ubuntu: command not found

No command '=bash' found, did you mean:

 Command 'bash' from package 'bash' (main)

 Command 'rbash' from package 'bash' (main)

=bash: command not found

=Successful: command not found

You need to get rid of the dollar signs in the assignment statements. You only use $ when you want to get a variable's value. You might also consider replacing the backticks with $(). For example,

Code:

$MYDATE=`date "+%b %d %T"`

should be

Code:

MYDATE=$(date "+%b %d %T")

See here for why $(..) is highly recommended over `..`

By the way, basename can be replaced with a built-in parameter expansion.

Code:

MYSCRIPT="${0##*/}"

bash also already sets a default HOSTNAME shell variable for you.