Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:19:33 +0100 From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> To: "MET" <met@uberstats.com>, "'freebsd-questions-en'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: A simple Shell script Question || Printing the date in a file name Message-ID: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKAEABJFAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <001701c24854$4f031510$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL>
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#!/bin/sh
DATE = `date +%Y-%m-%d`;
ARCHIVED="Gunks-$DATE.tar.bz2";
tar cjf $ARCHIVED Gunks.txt
- Barry
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Barry Byrne, IT Manager,
WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre
Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Email: barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com
Web: www.wbtsystems.com
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of MET
> Sent: 20 August 2002 15:17
> To: 'freebsd-questions-en'
> Subject: A simple Shell script Question || Printing the date in a file
> name
>
>
> 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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