Hey everybody. I have a bash question that is totally out of my league. What I would like to do is make a bash script that backups a folder to a tar.gz file on my backup drive. But I want the name of the file to be the date it was archived on. Heres what I have so far

#!/bin/sh
mount /dev/sda1 /usr/backup/
tar -cvzf /usr/backup/(date of compress variable).tar.gz /var/www/html/
umount /dev/sda1
#thank you and have a nice day

If anyone knows if there is a simple way to call the date down from bash I would love to know, and if its not so simple, then maybe some guidance.

Thx

Did you try 'date'?

It probably won't return the format you want, but check the manpages, or use sed to fix that.

John

Hi,

I'm UNIX expert, but I think this should work :

#!/bin/sh
NOWDATE=`date +%d%m%y`
mount /dev/sda1 /usr/backup/
tar -cvzf /usr/backup/$NOWDATE.tar.gz /var/www/html/
umount /dev/sda1
#thank you and have a nice day


the date format is going to look like that : 181203 (for today's date), if you need different format (for example to add the time %H:%M:%S).

Alf

Sorry, I meant in my last posting to say: I'm NOT a UNIX expert.

Alf

Heh-heh.

You can always just edit stuff like that. If you're quick, chances are that no-one will have noticed.

John

DUDE! it worked, thx alot

solution = `date +%m%d%y`