Timothy, You can set variables in your script to store the date information, like this (sort of) YR="2003" MO="1"
Now your filename becomes "serverlog${MO}${YR}" in your script, You can put the result of commands into variables in your script like YR=`date` (those backticks make the shell see date as a command to run) Google for bash tutorial or bash script howto /B ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stone, Timothy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Redhat-List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 12:52 Subject: scripting newbie has question... > Always lurking. Love this list and have learn ed a lot. ;) > > I have simple script that works but I would like to make it a bit more robust and have no idea where to begin as I'm a newbie to shell scripting. > > Here's the simplicity of it today: > > # start ################################ > > #!/bin/sh > > scp -i [key] [server0-log] [local0-log] > scp -i [key] [server1-log] [local1-log] > > # end ################################## > > This is run as a user cron job daily. > > The script is going to work for at least another day. Then I will have to edit it and it will work for another month. > > My server logs are named dynamically as so: %Y%M_server0.log > > So the point of all this? How do I add %Y%M features to my script? I don't know C, but decent with Java, so the bridge is not to far to cross. I might be over thinking this and the feature is in the shell. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Warmest Regards, > Tim > > -- > /** > * Timothy Stone . Sun Certified Java Programmer > * Web Master . tstone at cityofhbg dot com > * City of Harrisburg . 717.255.7297 > * Pennsylvania USA . 717.903.9162 > * > * "Censorship always defeats its own purpose, > * for it creates in the end the kind of society > * that is incapable of exercising real discretion." > * --Henry Steele Commager, Historian > */ > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list