Yeah Bill, I do not want to reuse the TODAY variable external to the shell script, But what I want to say is When I echo $TODAY variable , it is not displaying the Data. myprompt$./storedate ./storedate: +%m/%d/%y: not found myprompt$ ~Nikhil. -----Original Message----- From: $Bill Luebkert [mailto:dbecoll@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:37 PM To: Mulley, Nikhil Cc: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: storing todays date into a shell variable Mulley, Nikhil wrote: > Hi , > I wanna have a shell script which puts the today's date into a shell > variable and later use the Shell Variable for other reasons, > I have been using like this.. > > #!/bin/sh > TODAY=date '+%m/%d/%y' > echo $TODAY > Can any one tell me what could be wrong in this... Changing the date in your env will only change it for you and any child processes you create. Once your shell script exits, the TODAY will disappear for any new scripts run. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:dbecoll@xxxxxxxxxxxx (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:dbe@xxxxxxxxx / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
