Re: Pls help with little bash script

["Michael J. Pawlowsky" <mikep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fajar Priyanto wrote:

> Hi all,
> I want to automate backup process into crontab.
> What I usually manually do is:
> tar zcvf filename-date.tar.gz /somedirectory
>
> Can anyone help me with the script needed that can include the date in the 
> filename?
> Thanks.
>  

Well just assign date to something and then use it.
Like:

OLDFILE = 'myfile.gz'
TODAY = `date +%F`
NEWFILE = $TODAY-$OLDFILE

mv $OLDFILE $NEWFILE


Cheers,
Mike