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From: "Andrew Specht" <andrew@iaccess.com.au>
To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: gzip and date???
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:25:37 +1000
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cool thanks... i just did that and it works :)

Andrew Specht                                             |  System
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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Andrew Specht <andrew@iaccess.com.au>; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Monday, May 11, 1998 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: gzip and date???


>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
>--
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>


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