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Old 05-11-2018
Running a program manual vs script
Hello -

I am new to unix... very new. I am running a program at the command prompt:-
Code:
nohup ./ledger - comptroller_extract 05/11/2018 &

The above runs as expected.

If I put it in a sh script:-
Code:
current_date=$(date+%m/%d%y)
nohup ./ledger - comptroller_extract $current_date &


This does not work. It is as if the date is ignored.
Last edited by rbatte1; 05-14-2018 at 08:36 AM.. Reason: Added CODE tags
# 2  
Old 05-11-2018
Code:
current_date=$(date +%m/%d/%Y)

(include space before plus and upper case Y for 4 digit year)
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Old 05-11-2018
are u saying the Uppercase Y should be lower case >

---------- Post updated at 09:43 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:19 AM ----------

Thank you so much!!! It is working!!!!!
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# 4  
Old 05-11-2018
You were also missing a slash (i.e. /) before the %Y in you date format string (as in +%m/%d/%Y), but I assume you have already fixed that if it is working for you now.
# 5  
Old 05-13-2018
Thank you for your help.
I created a cron entry on the user and it is working.
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