Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:46:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Specht <andrew@iaccess.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gzip and date??? Message-ID: <19980511114630.R7546@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <02a601bd7c7f$42908420$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>; from Andrew Specht on Mon, May 11, 1998 at 11:50:48AM %2B1000 References: <02a601bd7c7f$42908420$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>
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On Mon, 11 May 1998 at 11:50:48 +1000, Andrew Specht wrote: > hey, > > Would anyone know how to make gzip include the date in the zipped file? > > eg: > > cache.log >> cache.log.gz.050598 > > does that work? nothing in the man pages about it. gzip doesn't do this. It also doesn't normally recognize this kind of name as a gzip archive. There's nothing to stop you writing a wrapper, though, like: #!/bin/sh for i in $*; do gzip $i mv $i.gz $i.`date "+%d%m%y"`.gz done This will rename the file in your example to cache.log.050598.gz. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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