Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:39:02 -0400 From: "MET" <met@uberstats.com> To: "'mpd'" <mpd@rochester.rr.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: <001c01c24857$5a563930$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> In-Reply-To: <20020820142301.GA20099@rochester.rr.com>
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Got it -- thanks.
~ Matthew
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From: mpd [mailto:mpd@rochester.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:23 AM
To: MET
Cc: 'freebsd-questions-en'
Subject: Re: A simple Shell script Question || Printing the date in a
file name
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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