From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 7:34: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A93837B401 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout5-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFBA43E42 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:34:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from met@uberstats.com) Received: from SURVIVAL (rrcs-nys-24-97-200-196.biz.rr.com [24.97.200.196]) by mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id g7KEXvW05346; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:33:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "MET" To: "'mpd'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions-en'" Subject: RE: A simple Shell script Question || Printing the date in a file name Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:39:02 -0400 Message-ID: <001c01c24857$5a563930$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <20020820142301.GA20099@rochester.rr.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Got it -- thanks. ~ Matthew -----Original Message----- 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 -- ___________________________________________________________ "IT IS A GOOD THING WE ESCAPED FROM THE OZONE LAYER!!!!!!!" - Pokey the Penguin from "POKEY THE HIS FRIENDS" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message