date command in a shell script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

It's perhaps a dummy question... but I don't find my way!
1) When I put the date command in a variable, it is ok and here the code :

WEEK_DAY=`date +%w`
DAY=`date +%Y%m%d`
echo  WEEK_DAY : "$WEEK_DAY"
echo  DAY : "$DAY"

2) I should to get direct the date and not in a variable, like :

echo "DAY : `date +%Y%m%d`"

But here the result :

trying with sh,ksh and bash... same result!

What's happen? as someone an idea?

2

Try:

echo "DAY : "`date +%Y%m%d`
3

I tried your one liner and it worked for me on AIX 5.2

4

Yeah... fine, it's work!
I found my problem... on the top of my script I defined a path's variable with the name PATH, so the shell could no more to find the date function... it's stupid!

Thanks for your help!