Simple Date question

[pdtt]

I want to assign a formatted date to a variable and then
add the date variable to the name of a log file.

This doesn't work for the assignement
RunDate= Date '+%y-%m-%d'

How would I get the variable assigment to work?

how would I create a log file name that would look like this?

# variables
RunDate=????
LogFile= "LoadLog-"
LogExtension= ".log"

#log file name I want to create
LoadLog-03-04-24.log

How do you build the single string?

Thank you

 

[KenCunningham]

You might want to try:

RunDate=`date +%y-%m-%d`

where the ` are backticks (above your tab key usually), not simple apostrophes. HTH.

 

[pdtt]

Ken,

I tried the backticks and it did not work. By the way, I don't know if it matters, I am using the korn shell.

Paul

 

[SamBones]

Try this for your script...
[tt]
# variables
RUNDATE=$(date '+%y-%m-%d')
LOGFILE=LoadLog
LOGEXT=log

LOGFILENAME=${LOGFILE}-${RUNDATE}.${LOGEXT}

print "Log File Name: ${LOGFILENAME}"
[/tt]
This prints out...
[tt]
Log File Name: LoadLog-03-04-24.log
[/tt]
Hope this helps.

 

[julianbarnett]

What KenCunningham said should work in Korn & Bourne shell

Logfile=Loadlog-`date +%y-%m-%d`.log

you need a space between the date and the +

 

[pdtt]

Thank you Ken and Sam. The answers work.