Am 13. Apr, 2002 schwätzte Bryce C. so:

> Unfortunately, bash doesn't put the executed output in the variable, it
> puts the text itself in.  Any other ideas?

bash doesn't, but notice the backticks ( ` ). Those say to run the command
in a subshell and return the output, which then gets assigned to the
variable.

You can also use the $() syntax, e.g.:

DATE=$( date +%d%b%Y-%H.%M )

ciao,

der.hans
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