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In response to Bill Banks <office@ourweb.net>:

> What am I doing wrough here:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
>  $DAYN='/bin/date +%a' + "_master.sql"
>  mysqldump master > $DAYN

Those look to be single quotes and not backquotes.  (backquote is
the upper left key on most keyboards)

> 
> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > dayoftheweek=`date +%w`
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 9 Nov 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?
> >>
> >> -- 
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