Re: storing todays date into a shell variable

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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...

You want:

TODAY=`date +%m/%d/%y`



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