directory with date name

[linuxnewbie09]

hello,

im relatively new here and i aint too sure about a few things.

anyway. im trying to create a directory within a script which is named with the current date and time. this directory name will need to be in the format of day-month-year-time as my script may be run more than once in the same day and i do not want it overwriting the previously created directory.

i think i know how to do this using mkdir

however once i have created this directory i need to use it again, in a different script which runs after the one which this command is based in, to create three new directories which would be placed inside the date directory created.

do you have any suggestions as to how this would be achieved or is it impossible?

[khafa]

Hi,

Maybe the first script can save the directory name (used with mkdir) in a file and then the second script will have to parse that file and get the directory name.