Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 15:52:36 -0400 From: David <david32@home.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need short unix program Message-ID: <37A5F704.4C72A521@home.com>
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try this.. work with the code a bit. it worked on HP-UX on saving output data under date/time filenames here is how I did it: tmp=`date +%Y%m%d` mv report.txt newname.$tmp help me! i want to make a program which allow to copy a file: /usr/myname/webcamera.jpg to a file: /usr/myname/mydirectory/current_date.jpg AT EVERY 10 SECONDS. The current_date string must include HH/MM/.ss because I want to make an archive directory /usr/myname/mydirectory/ with photos taken every 10 seconds at the 11 August Solar Eclipse with a webcamera on our Unix FreeBSD 3.1 server. The webcamera produces a webcamera.jpg file EVERY TIME WITH THE SAME NAME: webcamera.jpg AND OVERWRITE IT. I WANT TO SAVE THESE pictues/FILES WITH NEW NAME: current_date.jpg but I don't know how to extract a strig from the date command. please help. #!/bin/sh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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