RE: Date-stamp in filename for a script

[BARBELET Philippe <Philippe.Barbelet@cnes.fr>]

You can do some shell like that :

phil.sh
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#! /bin/sh

prefix=$1
suffix=$2
buffer=`date +%y%m%d'

file=${prefix}${buffer}${suffix}

cat > $file

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and use it like that :

ls  |  phil.sh  backup  .tar.gz

Phil. BARBELET
French Guiana - European Space Port


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De: Jay Barbee
A: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Objet: Date-stamp in filename for a script
Date: mardi 23 juin 1998 20:35

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From: Jay Barbee
To:  debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Date-stamp in filename for a script
Date: 1998-06-23 20:35
Priority: 3

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Excuse my ignorance in shell scripting, but I wanted to create a file
that
actualy had a filename that contains the date in the format:

backupYYMMDD.tar.gz

I can do:
date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz

which give the correct output for the filename.  If I assign that to an
 environment
variable such as TIMESTAMP:

TIMESTAMP='date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz'

How can I use this as:
touch $TIMESTAMP

...or...

tar czvf $TIMESTAMP /

ect... I have seveal uses for this concept, and I know you guru
scripters do
 this
in your sleep.  any help?

 --Jay


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