I am trying to use a shell script to write the current date and time to a file. Here is what I have so far
echo "$(date)" >> //home/user/Desktop/Scripts/Date Logs/datelog.txt
It will say it completed but nothing is printed to the file after it is run.
Use date >> //home/user/Desktop/Scripts/Date Logs/datelog.txt.
Like i tried in my system :-
date > /tmp/date.txt.
And file contains Wed Apr 5 09:27:37 IST 2017.
[Edit] There are difference between >>(appending to the file) and >(Create the new file)
Edit:- As suggested by chepner, you can directly redirect the o/p of date command to file using date >> /tmp/date.txt.
