Yes, I do everything the hard way :-) Didn't even occur to me to use the back ticks in the command itself. Shows you how often I use back ticks.
Miark Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly: > Just add an executable line to the name of the tar.gz by using date. > Pretty simple. I do it all the time. > > tar -zxf /path/to/file-`date +%m-%d-%y`.tar.gz /path/to/dir/to/backup > > You'll end up with /path/to/file-03-26-02.tar.gz > > Check out date --help for all the possible flags, so you can get your > tar file as specific as you'd like. Including the time, just the day > and month, format, etc; > > Hope that helps ya. > tdh > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > | I have a script I use to backup some important files in my home directory. It >works fine but I would like it to add the curent date to the file name IE: >backup-03-26-02.tar.gz instead of just backup.tar.gz > | Any suggestions on how to do this? I looked in the tar man and tar howto but >couldn't find exact syntax for the current date. > | thanks > | > > | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > `------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
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