Simple problem face a beginner....HELP PLEASE

[Abdelellah]

Hello !!
I'm trying to run this small shell script

tom:~> cat -n mysystem.sh
8 echo "Today's date is `date`, this is week `date +"%V"`."
9 echo

But the when i run this,,,,,,here is the result:
Today's date is `date`, this is week `date +"%V"`.

What's wrong ???
thanks

[drarem]

works for me, fedora 15 64bit, try your test again. chmod +x your script and run it as: ./mysystem.sh

Today's date is Mon Oct 24 06:59:32 EDT 2011, this is week 43.


cat -n date.sh
1 echo "Today's date is `date`, this is week `date +"%V"`."
2 echo
3

[Abdelellah]

thank you
but it didnot work for me
actaully am using centOS

[scathefire]

When you type out the command and run it in the terminal, does it work?

[atreyu]

Confirmed it works on my CentOS 5.x box.

How are you running it? Have it tried it like:

/bin/bash ./mysystem.sh

How about like this?

echo "Today's date is $(date), this is week $(date +%V)."

[Abdelellah]

Still not working guys>>>
what to do.........help please

[atreyu]

Try this:

at the top of your script, right below the #!/bin/bash line, put:

set -x

Then run the script.

Then post the entire contents of your script.

Then post the entire contents of the script output.

When you do the last two things, be sure to enclose the contents in the CODE brackets, for easier reading.

[yancek]

I'd suggest the OP, instead of saying "that didn't work", post the actual commands s/he uses as well as the output. It seems to work for everyone else?

[Abdelellah]

Here is the script

#!bin/bash 
set -x 
echo "this is the ,'date'"

this is the output

++ echo 'this the ,'\''date'\'' ' 
this is the,'date'

thanks

[Abdelellah]

and this is without set -x

#!/bin/bash 
echo "this is the,'date' "

this is the output

this is the ,'date'

thanks once again
waiting for you Pro