From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 7:12:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EBD37B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:12:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout5-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7665243E6E for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:12:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from met@uberstats.com) Received: from SURVIVAL (rrcs-nys-24-97-200-196.biz.rr.com [24.97.200.196]) by mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id g7KECFW24291 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:12:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "MET" To: "'freebsd-questions-en'" Subject: A simple Shell script Question || Printing the date in a file name Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:17:23 -0400 Message-ID: <001701c24854$4f031510$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message