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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
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:19:33 +0100
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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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [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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