Re: How do I do this in bash ??

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-19 11:48]:
>I know 'date' gives me exactly what I want but I cant figure out how to get 
>tar to write a file with the value of date as its file name ...

Basically,
    tar czf myFiles.`date`.tar.gz myfiles
though that gets you whitespaces in the file name. You should use
date(1) with a format string, have a look in date's manpage.


Thorsten
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