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Old 03-02-2005, 09:07 PM   #1
auden
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Help! tar file's name is truncated


Hi,

I am currently running a script in crontab. The script would take the files from a certain folder and tar them according to the date and system time but the output filename i get from the tar file is incomplete.

Eg. `date +'A%Y%M%e%k%M%SA'`.tar *.log
my output would be A200503021 and there would be an error 24523A.tar: No file or directory found.

Assuming the time is 12:45:23

How do i solve this problem?
Thanks

p.s. I dont think its the filename length problem as, if i remove the %Y my output would be A03021
 
Old 03-02-2005, 10:09 PM   #2
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Why the '%e'? That's putting a space in instead of a zero, so
date +%A%Y%M%d%k%M%SA
would work. Or you can try double-quoting the date string
"`date +'A%Y%M%e%k%M%SA'`"

-- Oh, and to clarify, it's not be 'truncated', exactly - it's just being treated as two filenames because of the whitespace separator.

Last edited by slakmagik; 03-02-2005 at 10:10 PM.
 
  


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