On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:43:05AM -0600, Troy Davidson wrote: > I am trying to create a directory with a datetime stamp as part of the > directory name. This is for backup purposes so I know when a directory is > backed up. > > This is what I am trying to do on the commandline: > > datedir= date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S > mkdir /tomcat$datedir
"date" is a command, so if you want to assign its results to a variable you need to use the backticks (`). So, you'd have: datedir=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` mkdir /tomcat$datedir I wasn't sure if you wanted that to be a folder inside /tomcat, or if you want all folders to begin with tomcat. If the former, then don't forget the slash, i.e. "mkdir /tomcat/$datedir" HTH, Todd
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