Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have been working on Sun Solaris since a long time. Recently I got to work on RH Linux. My Linux version details are:

Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:48 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have a simple command in my shell script:

export BKPTAG=`date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M"`

This command does not get executed at all, and the error message is :

line 44: date: command not found

I tried executing the same command at Linux prompt and it gets executed very well.

my shell is /bin/bash and I have mentioned it as the first line in the shell script:

#!/bin/bash

This is very strange to me, can anyone throw light on this? Thanks in advance.

Did you do anything with $PATH variable in this script?

am not sure about what is the error.

But try giving the absolute path of date command.

Yes,

I had modified PATH variable, and had forgot to prefix the assignment with $PATH:

It resolved my issue, Thanks a lot.