Creating directories based on a day variable

[Kasyx]

Busy working on a backup script wherein I need to have directories on the backup drive named for the particular day of the backup and have run into a bit of a snag. This is probably because I am an idiot.

Basically, it looks like this:

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DAY=`date +%A`
mkdir /mnt/backup/$DAY

Now, this all seems well in practice, and I can create the directory using that variable manually, however when running the script I get this:

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mkdir: `/mnt/backup/Monday' exists but is not a directory

I'm not really sure where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[AlphA]

howzit,

You probably have a file in /mnt/backup called "Monday"

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#!/bin/ksh
day=`date +%A`
mkdir /absolute_path/$day

I cant test as I am currently doing video encoding in Windows......but I dont see why the above should not work - i just ran it in ksh on AIX.

EDIT : You need to obviously use the bash shell and not ksh if you're working in Linux.

[Kasyx]

Yeah. It turns out that I am an idiot. I wasn't creating an absolute path, thus the directories were appearing in /usr/bin/local from where I was running the script.

Thanks for the help

[AlphA]

Cool. Glad you're sorted.