Excuse my ignorance in shell scripting, but I wanted to create a file that actualy had a filename that contains the date in the format:
backupYYMMDD.tar.gz I can do: date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz which give the correct output for the filename. If I assign that to an environment variable such as TIMESTAMP: TIMESTAMP='date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz' How can I use this as: touch $TIMESTAMP ...or... tar czvf $TIMESTAMP / ect... I have seveal uses for this concept, and I know you guru scripters do this in your sleep. any help? --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
