Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:23:01 -0400 From: mpd <mpd@rochester.rr.com> To: MET <met@uberstats.com> Cc: 'freebsd-questions-en' <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A simple Shell script Question || Printing the date in a file name Message-ID: <20020820142301.GA20099@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <001701c24854$4f031510$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> References: <001701c24854$4f031510$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL>
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:17:23AM -0400, MET wrote:
> I have a simple shell script that archives and compresses the output of
> a PHP script and then moves it to another location. However, every time
> it runs it replaces the backup that was previously there. So naturally
> to keep this from happening the file names have to be different. So I
> wanted to print the date in a file name. For example
>
> filename-8-20-2002.tar.bz2
>
> So how might I do that?
>
> I'm archiving/compressing like this - and that's when I'd like the date
> to be appended to the name.
>
> tar cjf Gunks-{insert date}.tar.bz2 Gunks.txt
something like this should work:
#!/bin/sh
BAK=Gunks-`date "+%m-%d-%Y"`.tar.bz2
tar cjf $BAK Gunks.txt
>
> ~ Matthew
>
mike
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