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This tells it to print first field as a 4 position decimal with no padding and the second field as a 2 position decimal with 0s used for padding instead of blanks.
Last edited by MensaWater; 06-05-2009 at 08:38 AM.
Actually i want to write a program to gzip server.log and move to a directory and tar them by month. If this month is june, i will tar the may's log. I have wrote the program but
when i want to tar the log, i have doubt how to tar the server.log.2009-05-01 to server.log.2009-05-31 into a may.tar . sorry to disturb you all.Mr jlighter, i have try your format but it didn't work.
I have tried your date format and it works! Really trying for quite some time and at last now got the solution. Really thank you for all the expert in LQ and i have learned a lot at here.
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