Saving files with date names

EganBursk · 07-25-2005, 10:21 AM

I have ClamAV on my system and it runs a scan everyday at 5am then saves the log file to scan.txt.

what I like to do is save the file with the date it was ran so I don't keep over writing the scan.txt file. How can I do this?

Something like log=(getDate).txt?

Here is my cron tab:

00 05 * * * sudo clamscan -r -l /home/egan/Documents/Virus/scans.txt /

Nathanael · 07-25-2005, 10:45 AM

Welcome to LQ!

00 05 * * * sudo clamscan -r -l home/egan/Documents/Virus/scans-`date +$y-%b-%d`.txt /

will give you the filename: scans-2005-Jul-25.txt
if you want to use different date formates, have a look at
#man date

NOTE: the quotes surrounding the data statement, are backquotes! they are not double quotes ( " ) they are not single quotes ( ' ), but backquotes ( ` )
this is important, otherewise it will not work correctly.

EganBursk · 07-25-2005, 12:12 PM

Thanks Nathanael.

I've updated my cronjob and also ran a test just scanning my /home directory and works like a charm. I will research the man pages if I need a different date scheme.
Many thanks.

EB

EganBursk · 07-25-2005, 01:55 PM

Also a note:

Putting the hyphen after scan produces 2 hyphens on my box ie. scans--2005-Jul-25.txt. So I took the hyphen out after scan and it produced the desirerd result...scans-2005-Jul-25.txt.

Thanks
EB

Nathanael · 07-25-2005, 02:35 PM

ops sorry, my bad, it needs to be a %Y instead of $y

EganBursk · 07-26-2005, 04:54 PM

No prob.

I read the man pages as you suggested and found the %Y.

Thanks for all the help.

JimBass · 07-26-2005, 05:20 PM

Something else to bear in mind is that you have no need whatsoever to run a virus scan on a linux box, unless it is a mail server or file server for window$ clients. Yes there are viruses for linux, but unless you are foolish enough to run as full time root, or trigger the virus as root, you have nothing to fear. The linux "viruses" really aren't worth being concerned with.

Peace,
JimBass

EganBursk · 07-27-2005, 06:14 AM

Thanks for the info. Well I'm definately not running in those capacities. ClamAV does find a couple of files when it runs that are oversized but that's it. I'm paranoid so I don't mind running an antivirus.