tar cf /archive/backup_`date +%a`.tar ...
should work

yours
josef

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:25, Grossman, Allan (DRMS) wrote:
> Hi, all - 
> 
> I have a cron job that makes a tar archive of my web root on another spindle
> in my server.  What I'd like to do is insert the day of the week into the
> filename but haven't figgered out exactly how to do it yet.
> 
> What I've got is this -
> 
> tar cf /archive/backup.tar /usr/www/*
> 
> I've tried this
> 
> tar cf /archive/backup_'date +&a'.tar /usr/www/*
> 
> which didn't work well at all  :(
> 
> This has to be fairly simple but I haven't found anything on the web that
> was even close.  Can y'all help?
> 
> thanks -


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