Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:32:02 -0700 From: Jim Geovedi <negative@toxic.magnesium.net> To: Barry Byrne <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> Cc: 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: <20020820153202.GB43729@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKAEABJFAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> References: <001701c24854$4f031510$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKAEABJFAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
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> #!/bin/sh
> DATE = `date +%Y-%m-%d`;
> ARCHIVED="Gunks-$DATE.tar.bz2";
> tar cjf $ARCHIVED Gunks.txt
>
> > 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
let's make it online. :-)
tar cjf Gunks-`date "+%F"`.tar.bz2 Gunks.txt
--
Jim Geovedi, negative@{,toxic.}magnesium.net
http://www.magnesium.net/~negative/
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