Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

When i run date command at unix prompt,
i get the output in format Tue Aug 29 12:36:18 GMT 2006

when i write the shell script i should be able to export the date output with format as YYYY/MM/DD-HH:MM:SS into some variable(ex : dateop).

and when i say echo ${dateop}
i should get output as the format i mentioned.

Please help me in this regard, it's my project requirement, urgent.

Regards,
Ravi Kumar Garlapati

Get a manual on the date command for all the options.

Code:

$ date +%Y/%m/%d-%H:%M:%S
2006/08/29-07:57:19

but that value should be able to store into a variable(say ex : dateop) in shell script
when i say echo ${dateop} in shellscript ,
i should be able to get the output as 2006/08/29-07:57:19

please help me.

Code:

dateop=$(date +%Y/%m/%d-%H:%M:%S)
echo ${dateop}
2006/08/29-09:41:04

Thanks a lot. I got my requirement satisfied.
Thanking you all once again.

without a ' ' will that work ???
i mean dateop=$(date '+%Y/%m/%d-%H:%M:%S')
--- ---
will it work without ' ' ??

again can you tell me why dateop=$(date '+....') is not working in SunOS ??
any thing wrong with me or what can you steer me in right way ?

Example : dateop=`date '+%m-%d-%Y'` kind of assignment working fine