-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 M E Fieu wrote: > Hi.. Need to ask you a simple script question, I used the date > command to get the yesterday web log file using the following > command echo ex`date -d yesterday +%y%m%d.log` in Linux. I want to > create a simple script to cat /home/IT/ex060530.log> kr.log using > the following script but it is not working. May I know how do I put > the output of echo ex`date -d yesterday +%y%m%d.log into cat > /home/IT/xxxx> kr.log ? > > [root@w2 krweblog3]# echo ex`date -d yesterday +%y%m%d.log` > ex060530.log > > [root@w2 krweblog3]# vi krweblog.sh > > #!/bin/sh > # > KRWEBLOG3= echo ex`date -d yesterday +%y%m%d.log` > cat /home/IT/$KRWEBLOG3> kr.log Get rid of the echo, it's not needed. KRWEBLOG3="ex`date -d yesterday +%y%m%d.log` If you ever do have to run a few commands to create a variable, you can use bash's command substitution to nest commands. Instead of using backquotes (`command`), you use $(command). KRWEBLOG3=$(echo ex$(date -d yesterday +%y%m%d.log)) See the section on Expansion in the bash man page for more details. - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. -- Adlai Stevenson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: When crypto is outlawed bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. iG0EARECAC0FAkR9KCImGGh0dHA6Ly93d3cucG9ib3guY29tL350bXovcGdwL3Rt ei5hc2MACgkQuv+09NZUB1ql+ACg33aPbJCie1mqHi5QXcCAVck5iLkAoM6ovyWO f7lLilm/oUK89/qpt4hg =etmy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list