Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:17:23 -0400 From: "MET" <met@uberstats.com> To: "'freebsd-questions-en'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: A simple Shell script Question || Printing the date in a file name Message-ID: <001701c24854$4f031510$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL>
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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
~ Matthew
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