Re: [LUG] Date environmental variable

[andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

steve@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:10:30PM +0000, andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I want to save files with a .date extension (e.g. foo.09122002,
> > bar.html.09122002), had a poke around the documentation I have, and
> > can't find any clues. 
>
> > any ideas what I can use?
>
> THEDATE=`date +%d%M%Y`
>
> Steve

aha, its always so obvious, I'll try 'man date' when I get home

cheers

andy 


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