Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I know there is a Q/A section and lots of posts regarding date command here. I am sorry to start a new thread. I am very new to shell scripting (actually i am working on my first program), so please forgive my ignorance. I could not find an answer to my problem else where so i posted it here.
I appreciated if anyone would refer me to a source where i can get my answer or give me some suggestions on how to resolve the matter.

This is what i need to do:

I am trying to use a shell script in Linux to read the current time and change the format to M_D_YYYY.
then the program needs to search the current directory for a file named "InfoM_D_YYY" (for example 'Info6_7_2005' ), read the file and write the data in separate variables.
When i use the date command, the out put is formated as follows:

Tue Jun 7 12:55:12 UTC 2005

I do nto know how i can change this format to M_D_YYYY and save in a variable which i can later ue to search for a file named InfoM_D_YYYY.

Again, I am sorry if this question is repetitive.

Thank you,

Nina

am not sure if this will work in Linux, but in AIX its as follows :-
DT=`date +"%m_%d_%Y`

Cheers

J

Thank you for your response.

It did not work though. I got the following error:

date: illegal time format
usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
[-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format]
DT=: Command not found.


Nina

DT=`date +%m_%d_%Y`
echo "${DT}"

The error message itself gave you the answer to your question, in full detail

Typo error. I forgot the second quote.

DT=`date +"%m_%d_%Y"`

Hi,

when i use DT=`date +"%m_%d_%Y"` in a tcsh shell, i get the message that
DT=06_08_2005: Command not found.
Actually for any variable assignment (even the very basic ones like
var=10 i get the error message that var=10: Command not found.
But in kshell it works fine. But it has the format of say 06_07_2005. Do you know how i can get rid of the 0's in month and day and get something like 6_7_2005.

One more question, i do not understand why the same command works in kshell but not tcsh. can anyone explain please.

Thank you

Nina