On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:27:17PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote: > I want to use cron to periodically copy a file "webcam3.jpeg" to a > filename based on the current day and time, but I'm unable to workout > how to do this as a bash shell command. > It will be something like > > cp webcam3.jpeg sproutcam + date '+%m%d%H%M' + .jpeg Like this: cp webcam3.jpeg sproutcam`date +%m%d%H%M`.jpeg Taking the date/time of your message as an example (18:27 11 December), you'll get `sproutcam12111827.jpeg' as the filename. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
