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Old 09-08-2009
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Code:
udate="/home/iclac/script_writing/2monthsago.txt"
should read:
Code:
udate=`/home/iclac/script_writing/2monthsago.txt`
By the way scripts are normally saved with a ".sh" filename suffix so others know it is a script and not a text document.