Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:28:39 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jack Stone <antennex@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting date variable Message-ID: <44F9DB67.6050506@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <BAY106-F12A7ABBB5E802ED5E91C6CCC3D0@phx.gbl>
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Jack Stone wrote:
> I could use the "date" command to do: 2006-09.txt or maybe 2006-Sep.txt
> but I haven't found a simple way to set a variable make date spell out
> the whole name of the month to match the file name.
date +"%Y-%B.txt"
See strftime(3) for all of the %-escapes you can use.
Cheers,
Matthew
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