Shell Programming and Scripting

hi,
Thank you very much, it works great now, but i still have 1 question, i am really very new in shell and seems the date has special case in using. I am trying to use this begin_date in other script, but i don't want it to read in echo, it works good when i use echo, but i want it to be as variable in another script. so i want time = $begin_date in script2.

#!/bin/sh
#begin_date=`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S`
begin_date="2008-08-09_11:12:14"


in script 2:
#!/bin/bash
. ./date.sh
echo $begin_date (this one gives me the right date in date.sh)
time = $begin_date

the variable time inside the script i use as $time, but it gives me sysdate.

thanks again.
Regards.

Also
a = b is wrong in shell scripting
a=b is correct - no spaces around the equal sign

Hello,
I have fixed the space, but i can not know what i am doing wrong or what i am missing,

date.sh
#!/bin/sh
begin_date="2008-08-05_11:12:14"

in script 2:
#!/bin/bash
. ./date.sh
echo $begin_date
time=$begin_date

is it right to use $time inside the script, why it doesnt take it the date i am assigning in date.sh script?

date.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash
begin_date='2008-08-05_11:12:14'

Thank you very much for all the people who replies me. it finally worksss.

I appreciate it a lot.
Regards.