Need scripting help!!
 

Can someone tell me how to pass today's julian date to the mkdir function to create a julian date folder. I have seen several posts showing something like the following:

DATE="date '+%j'" or some simple variation. All I get is a folder named date or +%j. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Stan

I assume DATE is the name of the new directory you want to create, hence

(better use lower case for variables)

Note the backquotes, not ordinary single quotes.

jlinkels

Many thanks. I somehow new it would be something easy that I missed.

Why introduce a variable, though? :}

mkdir `date +%Y%m%d`


Cheers,
Tink

Because that directory might be referenced more than once in that script, but repeatedly using the "date" command might give different results.;)

Fair comment if his script was run over midnight. :}

Cheers,
Tink