Re: compress files

["Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

If there really is the need to compress audio data, then + 1 for lossless  
codecs and if I need a simple date output e.g. to dump freebsd, I'm using

dumpstart=$(date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")

but with "date" you can do nice things, when using UNIX time, that aren't  
that simple too.