[Gllug] Really simple problem??

[Allen Wayne]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! Cheers!!! Comes of using Windoze for too long!!!

Many thanks and apologies

Wayne

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Winter [mailto:doug at pigeonhold.com] 
Sent: 10 June 2003 22:18
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Really simple problem??


On Tue 10 Jun wayne Allen wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> > mkdir `date +%y%m%d`
> 
> err that gives me a directory of /date +%y%m%d

Try using backquotes, like the man said, instead of normal quotes :)

doug.

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