Date wise Folder name

[opi045]

Hi,

I am a newbie to Linux. I am using RH Enterprise edition.

I am writing a Script which will create folder everyday with the date as the folder name. For example: 20090120 or 20090119 etc. And then I will same some file in that folder, Zipped that folder and then mailed that zipped folder to some receipt's.

But every time I create a folder there is some garbage at the end of the folder name. For example: 20010120? or 20090120??. So when I try to enter or zip that folder it is giving error such as ...... No File Found / No such Folder....etc.

Another this is that when I run the mkdir command from command prompt it is working fine. only problem is running mkdir cmd from Script.

my script is like that.......

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Date=`date +%F -d '-1 day'`
mkdir /root/xyz/$Date
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Can any body tell me what to do..........


Regards
Adnan

[Luke_C]

Hi Dude,
I do the same sort of thing with my back ups this is what I used and works every time.

DirDate=$(date +%d-%m-%y)

which displays for example

21-01-09

then you can do your

mkdir /root/xyz/$DirDate

Hope this helps.

Luke