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xXWiLdAcEXx-2:~ xXWiLdAcEXx$ DATE=`date +%d`
xXWiLdAcEXx-2:~ xXWiLdAcEXx$ echo $DATE
Thu 1 Sep 2011 14:00:33 AST

thats it...however when i do

xXWiLdAcEXx-2:~ xXWiLdAcEXx$ date +%d
01
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I did the same thing actually, however, I kept getting the full date when I used echo $d and so I don't know how to execute the rest of what I want to do.

And I'm doing this in terminal (OS...

hi,

i've just started learning a bit of shell scripting and i wanted to know how to assign the value of the day of the month (i think the command for that is date +%d) to a variable say 'd' so...