Problem with a Shell Script

**numberwhun** · Mar 14 '08, 09:15 PM

Originally posted by sitko

Hi,

Its been a long time since I've worked with Shell scripts. I got a script from a co-worker and need it make it do some stuff, and for the life of me, I can get it to work.

Code:

# Creates the date
DIR_EXT=`date '+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S'`

# I want this next line to take the date created above and add a "_" and the value in the $JOB_NAME, and make this one directory.
UNIQUE_DIR=$DIR_EXT_$JOB_NAME
#This should tie it all together
JOBDIR=$HOMEDIR/$DIR_STRING/$UNIQUE_DIR

echo "Date string is: $DIR_EXT"
echo "Unique Directory is: $UNIQUE_DIR"
echo "Job Directory is: $JOBDIR"

Heres the output:

Date string is: 20080313_165404
Unique Directory is: Turner_test11
Job Directory is: /corp/home/ai9542/Reshipper/Turner_test11

My question is why isn't the date string in front of the job name (in this case Turner_test11)?
I want it to be "/corp/home/ai9542/Reshipper/20080313_165404 _Turner_test11"

Thanks,
Sitko.

Not sure, but try defining the variable like this and see if it works:

Code:

UNIQUE_DIR=${DIR_EXT}_${JOB_NAME}

Regards,

Jeff

**kaarthikeyapreyan** · Mar 18 '08, 06:01 AM

Hey try this kid he works

UNIQUE_DIR=`ech o "$DIR_EXT"_"$JO B_NAME"`

Problem with a Shell Script

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