On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, e. pareja wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Ronald Warner wrote:
>
> > I am trying to create a script that will add a date extension to a file.
> > For example, test become test.10032000. I have the following in a
> > file called ds.
> >
> > td='date "+%m%d%Y"'
> > mv $1 $1.$td
> >
> > and its not giving me the correct results...
>
> shouldn't that be:
>
> td=`date "+%m%d%Y"`
> mv $1 $1.$td
>
> The shell interprets the single back quote differently from a single
> quote.
even shorter code for that would be:
mv $1.`date "+%m%d%Y"`
consumes one line and does not use up environment. ;)
eric
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