Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 19:49:28 -0700 From: Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com> To: Bruce Hunter <freebsd@solisix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar problem Message-ID: <75f3f705040701194931a284f6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1088735303.4072.2.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com> References: <1088728604.849.1.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com> <1088735303.4072.2.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com>
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On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:28:23 -0400, Bruce Hunter <freebsd@solisix.com> wrote: > > Thanks, I got it to work. How would I include the current system date > like this. > > #tar -cvf Solisix-$USER.tar Solisix/ <--- with current user.. > > I want the date instead.. > > #tar -cvf Solisix-$date.tar Solisix/ <-- doesn't work > > I'm still learning.. sorry > What you're doing when you do $USER is bringing in one of the environment variables. If you type 'env' at a command prompt, you'll see the ones currently defined. The date isn't one of them. There might be an easier/better way but I would suggest running the 'date' command inline with the ` character as so: tar -cvf Solisix-`date '+%d%m%Y'`.tar Solisix That runs the 'date' command with a particular formatting string and then puts that result into the tar command. --roop
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