Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:08:08 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Bill Banks <office@ourweb.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: shell programming Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20071109120658.0244aa70@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <47349D10.20709@ourweb.net> References: <47349D10.20709@ourweb.net>
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At 11:46 AM 11/9/2007, Bill Banks wrote:
>I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a
>variable. How can I do it?
I do this in ksh, but it should work in sh too:
DATE=/bin/date
TODAY=`$DATE +%m-%d-%Y`
TIME=`$DATE +%H:%M:%S`
echo Backups started $TODAY at $TIME
-Derek
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