[Gllug] Really simple problem??

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh wayne Allen on Tuesday 10 June 2003 10:06 pm:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> > On Jun 09 2003, wayne wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Really silly question that is driving me upthe wall I want to create a
> > > directory from a date from a script, but something is missing
> > >
> > >  mkdir < date % +%y%m%d
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I want a directory called 030506
> >
> > mkdir `date +%y%m%d`
>
> err that gives me a directory of /date +%y%m%d

You used apostrophes ' when you should have used backticks `

On UK keyboards, backticks are usually top left with the tilde ~

hth,
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Alistair
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