Matthew Seaman wrote:
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.
Thanks Matthew,
I looked in date, but was not aware of strftime.
This is exactly what I needed :)
Regards,
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