[Gllug] Really simple problem??

[Doug Winter]

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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