On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:57:00AM +0000, Lang Zhi wrote:
-> Hi.
-> I need to backup some files every day. So, we use cron right ?
-> The file format is like this : abc.20000519.
-> So the next day, the new backup file will be named abc.20000520 and so on.
->
-> The problem here is, how do i get the "20000520", "20000521" and ... ?
-> This is actually the current date. I try to use the "date" , then "cut" and
-> "tr" it, but it doesn't work.
You can define the format of the output from date. "info date" or "man
date" for more information.
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