At 11:19 AM 2.10.2003 -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: >Without dumping to perl or another external language, would like to accomplish >the following; > >prior to making changes in a file, backup incrementially the current file to >create a record of changes ans versions. For example. > >we are about to make changes to file.conf and would like to make a copy of our >current file before doing so *without* overwriting previous backup copies > > #cp /path/to/file.conf /path/to/file.conf.20030210 > >I almost want to say this could be done with something simple like > > #cp /path/to/file.conf /path/to/file.conf.$DATE > >which would be the solution if I was using perl, php, or soething else to >accomplish the copy of files, but would prefer a simple one liner without having >to load another processor just for this one command. > >Suggestions would be appreciated. > >Dave >
If you use "date" as follows, it will take it out to the month, day, hour and minute cp ../file.conf`date +".%m.%d.%H.%M"` ...will give: file.conf.02.06.04.45 Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
