Shell Script using smbclient

BobTheBeat

Hey all, im in the middle of creating a shell script that:-

- creates a file named according to the system date (using mkdir `date +%d_%m_%Y`
- copies the contents of a particular directory into that file
- copies the now fully laden file to a windows client

Now, I can create all the files etc and access the share via smbclient, but
when I do the following

smb:>lcd /location/of/new/directory
smb:>put `date +%d_%m_%Y` or even smb:>put `%d_%m_%Y`
i get `date does not exist

So I guess what Im asking is, can smbclient gain access to environment variables like date etc?If so, how do I specify it within the put command?

Cheers,
Bob

fishfoodie

date isn't an env variable, its a program. If you specify the full path to the date binary it will probably work, try 'which date' & then putting in the path returned.