On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 04:33:27PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: > Hi guys and Gals, > > I have a simple script: > > #!/bin/sh > > a=ia$(date +%d%m%Y) > > tar -cf "$a.zip" "/usr/home/projects/lunaria/items all" > mv $a.zip /usr/home/itemsall/ > > this nearly does what I want, I would like to put the time in the file > name aswell. If I put the %T in the date variable, the resultant value > for $a has : seperating the hours, minutes and seconds. > > Try as I might, I can not find away to remove the : and tar spits the > dummy at them and it causes an IO device error. > > I looked through sed and awk, and spent an hour playing, but all to no > avail. > > Anyhelp apreciated,
Well, to get date(1) to spit out a date-time string without any unfortunate punctuation, try something like: % date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S See strftime(3) for details of all the % escapes you can use with date(1). On the other hand, tar(1) has an option --force-local which causes it to ignore colons in filenames as indicating a remote tape drive. Nb. that's gnu tar, which is the standard tar in all 4.x and any 5.x-RELEASE -- 5.2-CURRENT will shortly switch to bsdtar, and that will probably work differently. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
pgptc9kmxOJBO.pgp
Description: PGP signature