On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:54, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> echo mytar-$(date +%d%m%Y).tar.gz
> mytar-03112003.tar.gz
> 

Yay for Peter, boo for Jan.

Placing the date in a filename as Year-Month-Day is much neater and it
means a file listing will have the oldest file at the top and the newest
at the bottom (at least for the next 8000 years or so).

Cheers,
Malcolm V.

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