On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, George Lenzer wrote:
> I really want to gain more knowledge on shell scripting. (I
> used to be pretty good at DOS batch files in my "bad old
> days" :) )
Bash blows DOS completely away [KABOOOOM *DOS drops, a shattered,
tired, old hulk...*] at least when you compare the programming
capabilities. You'll find out. <wink>
> Does anyone have any good resources that they are
> familiar with on the net?
Yes.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html
>
> Second question: How would I take the output of the 'date'
> command and use it to name a file? I am going to be setting
> up a backup routine using tar/gzip and would like to name the
> files with date info. Would I create an environment variable
> that woudl hold the output of 'date' and the tell tar to name
> the file <evn var>.tar ?
tar -czvf /dev/XXX/`date | tr " " "_"`.tgz /yourdir
To safely see what the file name will look like from above, just
try:
touch `date | tr " " "_"`.tgz
HTH,
L.G.
PS:
The howtos mentioned are probably on your system somewhere
already. Try
less /usr/doc/HOWTO/*Bash*O
or `cd' there and browse around:
cd /usr/doc/H*O
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