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From: Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Slug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 6:27 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Including date into filename as shell use
> 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
more like:
cp webcam3.jpeg sproutcam`date '+%m%d%H%M'`.jpg
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