[nflug] bash scripting

[Robert Stockdale IV]

Thank you. This is exactly what I was trying to do. In fact I was almost
there. Had everything except the backticks. Now I just got to set up the
cron job so it gets done everyday M-F. Thanks again.
Bob

On 8/25/07, Tony E - Jaraeth <jaraeth at phoenixwing.com> wrote:
>
> For archiving files, as an example, I usually us something like:
>
>   mv filename.tgz filename.`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> ~ Tony E
>
>
>
> Robert Stockdale IV wrote:
> > Hi All:
> > I'm a bit rusty at scripting. I've only done a little in the past. What
> > I am trying to do is create a file name with the date as part of the
> > name. Such as tnt082507.pdf (tnt'mmddyy'.pdf). I did this about 20 years
> > ago in MS-DOS. I'm planning to setup a cron job to retrieve a file from
> > the web using wget. The file always has the same name and I don't want
> > to overwrite the previous days file. I'd like to save them in a dated
> > filename with a mv command in a specified directory. How can I
> > concatenate the system date as specified to create unique filenames for
> > each days file?
> > Thank you.
> > Bob
> >
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