Bash Script with variables assigned to a path

[Skawilly]

Sorry I am new here and novice to shell scripting. I hope I am posting in the correct spot. I do use ubuntu and that alone lead me here. Any who...

I am trying to create a file, that has a variable assigned to it, in another directory. For some reason when I run the script it creates the file only in my pwd and I cannot for the life of me figure out why.

My current script:

filename=$(date +"%e-%m")
touch /home/$filename

My pwd at the moment is Desktop but it does not matter as I have tried from elsewhere. I have tried the touch command in the following ways (some will be obviously incorrect but I was desperate):

touch /home/${filename}
touch /home/'$filename'
touch /home/$(filename)
touch /home/$"filename"

and many more as well as the original format listed. Please help I seriously appreciate it.

[sdousley]

the method that you've used should provide the desired output - creating a file based on date and month in /home.

sousley-1 ~ # ls /home/
sdousley
sousley-1 ~ # filename=$(date +"%e-%m")
sousley-1 ~ # touch /home/$filename
sousley-1 ~ # ls /home/
23-08 sdousley