>
> man date says: "date - print or set the system date and time"
> It prints the system time, but getting it into a variable
> seems to be my problem.
> I have tried everything that I can think of including:
> touch < date (+formatting info)
>
> Can anyone please point me in the proper direction?
You need to grab the output of date. The thing you're missing is the backtick (`)
operator.
#!/bin/sh
datefield=`date +%Y%M%d`
filename=FOO.${datefield}
touch $filename
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