Thank you! We have updated the docs to use the $(...) form: http://www.tarsnap.com/simple-usage.html http://www.tarsnap.com/tips.html#receive-mail
Cheers, - Graham Percival On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 05:20:25PM -0400, Garance AE Drosehn wrote: > Note that you do want the backward-quotes for the 'date' part, > but not for the full string. But it would also be easier to read > if you used the more modern alternative for the backward-quotes. > > So try: > ... -f "pictures-and-music $(date +%D-%M-%Y_%H-%M)" > > Also, my guess is that you don't really want that first two > date-values to be "%D-%M". That gives you the full date followed > by the minute. I expect you want "%d-%m', which would give you > day-of-month followed by the month-number. > > Personally, I prefer to order time values by "bigness", so I'd > use the order of year, month, day, hour, minute. To get that, > you'd go with: > > ... -f "pictures-and-music $(date +%Y-%m%d_%H%M)" > > Note that you need the string-delimiters to be double-quotes, > not single-quotes. If you used single-quotes, then the shell > will not expand the $(date...) part. > > I hope this helps. > > -- garance alistair drosehn > > > > On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 13:44:54 -0700 > > Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Here is the script. > >> > >> #!/bin/sh > >> > >> /usr/local/bin/tarsnap -c \ > >> -v -f `pictures and music `date +%D-%M-%Y_%H-%M`` \ > >> /users/sa/music /users/sa/movies /users/sa/pictures > >> # End of the script... > >> > >> Do I have the right idea here? It looks like it half way works but it > >> is not naming the archive what I want to name it. Once I get this set > >> up I'll never need to worry again, I hope lol! > >> > >> Everyone be blessed and have a happy wednesday. >
