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vrunoa
vrunoa

Reputation: 776

Bash script date error

i'm trying to get an old date in a bash script, but it throws this error 

"./bkc.sh: line 10: 20130122: command not found"

It's like tries to use the result date as a function instead of assign the value to the OLDATE var.

Here's my code:

OLDATE= `date -d '7 days ago' +'%Y%m%d'`

Can anyone help me ? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 158

Answers (1)

Davide Berra
Davide Berra

Reputation: 6568

Just remove the space between OLDATE and the command.

Bash doesn't want spaces in assigning values

Upvotes: 2

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