At 11:46 AM 11/9/2007, Bill Banks wrote:
I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it?
I do this in ksh, but it should work in sh too: DATE=/bin/date TODAY=`$DATE +%m-%d-%Y` TIME=`$DATE +%H:%M:%S` echo Backups started $TODAY at $TIME -Derek
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