That's what I missed. I used the wrong single quotes ' instead of `. Git. Should've caught that right off. It's been a while since I had a chance to script anything in bash, since I've worked mostly in Windows the last year or so and I'm rusty. Thanks. On Aug 19, 2013 6:18 PM, "Bill Oliver" <ven...@billoblog.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Mark Haney wrote: > > I've hit a problem I can't quite figure out which a bash script I'm >> writing. I'm trying to copy backup files in the format >> 2013-August-18--1123.zip to an NFS share. >> I want to have the script copy the file with just the date. In bash >> I've setup vars that get the current date: >> # Date variables >> log_year=`date "+%Y"` >> log_month=`date "+%B"` >> log_day=`date "+%d"` >> >> # Filename format YYYY_MM_DD--HHMM.zip >> filename=$log_year"-"$log_**month"-"$log_day"--"/*".zip" >> >> The problem is I don't really care about the stuff after the '--'. I.e. >> from the CLI I'd just 'ls 2013-August-18--*.zip' to get all the files with >> that date in the >> file name. How can I do that in a bash script? >> >> >> -- >> Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris. >> >> Mark Haney >> Software Developer/Consultant >> mark.ha...@gmail.com >> >> >> > > You mean something like this? > > ************************ > #!/bin/sh > # Date variables > log_year=`date "+%Y"` > log_month=`date "+%B"` > log_day=`date "+%d"` > > # Filename format YYYY_MM_DD--HHMM.zip > filename="$log_year-$log_**month-$log_day--*.zip" > > filelist=`ls $filename` > > echo $filelist > *************************** > > billo > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > >
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