Am Do, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Genti A. Hila um 18:29: > Does anyone know to get the timestamp as the name of log files instead of just the name and some numbers after it ? > I am thinking to keep hourly log files for PIX and for a month would be really a lot of work to find out when a certain file was created. > > Thanks in advance cp -a file.log intrusion-`date +"%Y.%m.%d_%X"`.log && > file.log For other formats of date see "date --help". Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653