I am having problems trying to get the following command working inside of a bash script:

When this command runs from inside of the script it gives the following error:

This is obviously because the variable $DATE (which is defined previously in the script) isn't being expanded due to the single quotes (and possibly the combo of double quotes inside). When I escape various combinations of them, however, the command still doesn't work. In true "lftp" manner it doesn't error out, it just simply doesn't do anything.

Any ideas?

perhaps this will work...

# eval "lftp -c 'open -e \"put file-name-$DATE.tar\" 10.0.0.1/dir/here -u uname,password'"

OR

# lftp -c 'open -e "put file-name-'$DATE'.tar" 10.0.0.1/dir/here -u uname,password'

I think you shuold use

This doesn't work.

This does! Thanks for the assistance.