Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:33:27 +0800 From: Kathy Quinlan <kat-free@kaqelectronics.dyndns.org> To: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: string manipulation in a shell script Message-ID: <40F8E457.1030303@kaqelectronics.dyndns.org>
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Hi guys and Gals, I have a simple script: #!/bin/sh a=ia$(date +%d%m%Y) tar -cf "$a.zip" "/usr/home/projects/lunaria/items all" mv $a.zip /usr/home/itemsall/ this nearly does what I want, I would like to put the time in the file name aswell. If I put the %T in the date variable, the resultant value for $a has : seperating the hours, minutes and seconds. Try as I might, I can not find away to remove the : and tar spits the dummy at them and it causes an IO device error. I looked through sed and awk, and spent an hour playing, but all to no avail. Anyhelp apreciated, Regards, Kat.
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