Hmm. I don't seem to ever have gotten the original post. Seems to be happening to me quite a bit. I wonder why...
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:08:37AM -0700, David Erdman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > cd /usr/local > > rm -rf /usr/local/package > > wget > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz Since the nightlies are unstable, I like to save them as different file names, based on the date, and then if today's is usable, I'll delete yesterday's tarball. Here's part of my script: packagename=mozilla-M18-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz --output-document=$packagefile tar xzf $packagename It will save the file as, for example, mozilla-M18-20001005.tar.gz for today's date. Hubert -- ____ | ----------------------------------------------------------- | / --+-- | / ___|___ Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | \ | _|_ | |__| |__|__| GCS/M d- s:- a-- C++ UL+(++++) P++ L++ E++ W++ N++ o? | | K? w--- O++ M- V- PS-- PE+++ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5 X R- tv+ b+ | / | \ DI++++ D G e++ h! !r !y | / | \ | | <><------------------ http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/ PGP/GnuPG fingerprint: 6CC5 822D 2E55 494C 81DD 6F2C 6518 54DF 71FD A37F Key can be found at http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/hackerhue.asc Experience the Power to Change -- http://www.powertochange.org/ CAUCE member -- Stop Spam! -- http://www.cauce.org/ Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? -- http://www.linux.com/ International Alliance for Compatible Technology -- http://www.iact.net/
