I am using Gnome-Schedule for my cron jobs.

This is the code I am using to record my show

arecord -t wav -f cd -d 8600 /home/randy/Desktop/IT.wav

At the moment my output file is names IT.WAV.

My code runs every sunday at 11:50am

Let's say I had to have my code record Tuesday's at 5pm. I would want it to automagically put the current date in the Desired format below.

Is it possible to have the output file automatically date stamped in this format every time I record.

Desired format: ITAUG0713

AUG is the month
07 is the day of the month
13 is the last two digits of the year

Randy:
Try this
output using echo here is
ITAug2813.wav

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take a look at the date command.

the preferred method of sorting files by date is yyyy-mm-dd (or yy-julian-day-of-year).

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This is the error I get. What do I do?



Your command contains one or more of the character %, this is special for cron and cannot be used with Gnome-schedule because of the format it uses to store extra information on the crontab line. Please use the | redirector character to achieve the same functionality. Refer to the crontab manual for more information about the % character. If you don not want to use it for redirection it must be properly escaped with the \ letter.

its telling you to put a \ in front of each %. the backslash escapes it so it isnt interpreted by the shell.

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Beautiful!

That worked fine. Is there a way to capitalize Aug to AUG instead?

I learned something new today.

Thanks schneidz!!

Yeah, me too.

Here is how to capitalize. Put a ^ before the letter b in the code. Works fine for me now and again, I learned something new.