Shell script question!!!!(date)

[menace212]

I creating a shell script but I want to attache the date to it...I know the symbols for the date...But my scipt won't attached the date to the file I'm creating...Example below
#!/bin/sh
logpath="/export/home"
datestring="date'%m/%d/%y:%H%M%S'"
pingfile="ping 1.1.1.1"
export pingfile datestring logpath

$pingfile > $logpath/test.$datestring

But the problem is I'm getting it won't create the date on the end....

I'm tring to get to look like this test.9/1/01:5:01:30

 

[PHV]

[tt]datestring=`date '+%m/%d/%y:%H%M%S'`[/tt]
However I'd don't use / in filenames ...

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[SamBones]

Don't use slashes or colons. You will have nothing but headaches down the road.

Also, if you put your date as YYYYMMDD, your files will always be in chronological order in a directory listing (unless you sort it by something else).

Try this...

#!/bin/sh

logpath="/export/home"
pingfile="ping 1.1.1.1"
export pingfile logpath

$pingfile > $logpath/test.`date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'`

 

[p5wizard]

Filename variables with slashes in 'em in a shell script redirection will most likely lead to invalid path names anyway (directory does not exist type of errors).


HTH,

p5wizard