8 Mar
2002
8 Mar
'02
12:38
On Friday 08 March 2002 13.12, Ray Booysen wrote:
Hi, I need to get the date in the above format into a variable so my backup script can create a directory to store the archive in. any suggestions?
mkdir /var/backup/`date +%d-%m-%Y` is one way to do it. I'm sure there are others //Anders