shell programming

[Derek Ragona]

At 11:46 AM 11/9/2007, Bill Banks wrote:
>I'm  writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a 
>variable. How can I do it?

I do this in ksh, but it should work in sh too:

DATE=/bin/date

TODAY=`$DATE +%m-%d-%Y`
TIME=`$DATE +%H:%M:%S`
echo Backups started $TODAY at $TIME

         -Derek



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