On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:06:58 -0800
"Larry Guest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> But rsync does not know how to handle this string, I think when its
> passed to rsync its not text as I see it on the screen. It cant make
> the dir and pukes.
>
> I have seen a bunch of stuff out there for sprintf, etc but no clear
> small little script to do this.
>
> Thanks
>
This will give you and answer like YYYYMMDDhhmmss for your directory name. Maybe watch
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#!/usr/bin/perl
$dirname = dirname();
print "$dirname\n";
sub dirname{
my @t=localtime;
my $mon = $t[4]+1;my $yr = $t[5]+1900;
return (sprintf("%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d",$t[5] +1900,$t[4]
+1,$t[3],$t[2],$t[1],$t[0]));
}
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