Re: passing date to variable

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From: The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:00

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hummbabe@hotmail.com wrote:

> I'm trying to pass the current month and day to a variable for
> purposes of renaming and archiving files. here's the idea:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> v_date = date +%m%d
> mv file "file$v_date"

Did you try it this way?

#!/bin/sh
v_date=`date +%m%d`
mv file "file$v_date"

That seems like it should work.  The spacing on the assigning of the value
of the variable, as well as the backtick characters encasing the command
whose output will be assigned to the variable, are critical.  The quotes
around the file$v_date part don't need to be there, but it doesn't hurt to
have them there.

							Bryan

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