[H-GEN] quick question

Craig Eldershaw celdersh at parc.xerox.com
Tue Aug 21 12:12:04 EDT 2001


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Hi Martin,

>is there an easy way to create a directory containing a date, or time.
>or maybe a file, for example a file called full.etc.[DATE].tgz
>
>or mkdir backup[DATE]

Something like:

   mkdir Backup-`date "+%y-%m-%d"`

should do you.  The same use of `` will work for tar etc as well, so

   tar -czf /Backup-`date "+%y-%m-%d"`.tgz /ImportantStuff

is possible too.

Cheers,
        C.


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