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Old 12-05-2003, 09:06 AM   #1
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adding timestamp to name

was thinking of making a very easy backup thingy to backup a single directory.
i'll make a simple cron script like this

cp <directory> /mnt/hdd2/backup/ -R

now, my question is: is there any way of adding a timestamp to the destination name? like <dest.directory><current date> ?
 
Old 12-05-2003, 09:13 AM   #2
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just add `date format here, see manpage` INCLUDING backticks to the filename
 
Old 12-05-2003, 10:40 AM   #3
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