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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
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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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