Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 00:01:25 +1000 (EST) From: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: bash question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990723234100.13264B-100000@garfield>
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Is there a special character I can use in filenames to tell bash to automatically increment a number within the filename when redirecting data to the file. eg. The first time I type "date > [filename]" I want bash to place the date in a filename called date.001 Now, because date.001 already exists, the next time I type the same command it should produce date.002, and so on.... Can this be done ??? Thanks... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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