Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:34:45 -0000 From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> To: "'Bill Banks'" <office@ourweb.net>, "'FreeBSD Questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: shell programming Message-ID: <00b101c826e4$a5c06eb0$c5010c0a@SUNYA> In-Reply-To: <473B2F54.7030208@ourweb.net> References: <47349D10.20709@ourweb.net><20071109193001.Y20961@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <473B2F54.7030208@ourweb.net>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bill Banks
> Sent: 14 November 2007 17:25
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: shell programming
>
> What am I doing wrough here:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> $DAYN='/bin/date +%a' + "_master.sql"
> mysqldump master > $DAYN
Your quotes should be backticks not single quotes.
Also drop the $ from before the variable name when assigning.
#!/bin/sh
DAYN=`/bin/date +%a`
DAYN="${DAYN}_master.sql"
- barry
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