Question

I have some simple shell scripts

#!/bin/bash

echo $(date)
NOW=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)
NAME = "db.$NOW.sql"
echo $NAME
LOCALPATH = "/data/mysql/$NAME"
echo $LOCALPATH
/usr/bin/mysqldump -u username -ppassword --databases dbname > $LOCALPATH

Error message:

 line 5: NAME: command not found
 line 7: LOCALPATH: command not found

Something am I missing?

Answer 1

Dont use any whitespace when you are defining your variables.

NAME="db.$NOW.sql"

As you have it above, bash will try to execute something called NAME with arguments = and "db.$NOW.sql" respectively.