On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:13 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:09:04PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > Is it possible to use todays date as element in a filename in an exclude > > list? > > You can have multiple exclude statements, IIRC, at most one can omit the > "append" argument. Given that, you could have one exclude statement > read a file created at the start of your amdump run with an appropriate > pattern. > > echo "./###$(date +%Y%m$d)###" > /path/to/exclude/pattern/of/the/day/file > amdump .... > > Replace the ###'s with whatever constant or filename pattern you need > and the date command with whatever syntax your date string needs demand. > > Then your dumptype might have something like > > exclude list append optional /path/to/exclude/pattern/of/the/day/file > > The path could be absolute or relative to the root of the DLE.
Beautiful! Thanks a lot. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
