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How do I assign the date to a constant. I need the date set to this because the script takes a while to run and it appends files to archives, and if the time changes in between, then it will attempt to add to an archive that doesnt exist. I.E when the script starts, it will create a tar file (-cvzf) with the time set as 0900, but when it gets further down the script, and has to append, the time would have changed. Thanks
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How do I assign the date to a constant. I need the date set to this because the script takes a while to run and it appends files to archives, and if the time changes in between, then it will attempt to add to an archive that doesnt exist. I.E when the script starts, it will create a tar file (-cvzf) with the time set as 0900, but when it gets further down the script, and has to append, the time would have changed. Thanks

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bash, sh, ksh% date=`date +%Y%d%m%H%M`; tar cf backup-$date.tgz<br />
csh, tcsh% set date = `date +%Y%d%m%H%M`; tar cf backup-$date.tgz
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bash, sh, ksh% date=`date +%Y%d%m%H%M`; tar cf backup-$date.tgz
csh, tcsh% set date = `date +%Y%d%m%H%M`; tar cf backup-$date.tgz

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Hi, I've a written a small shell script that tar's certain directories and then moves the tar files to a backup directorie. Is it possible to add the time /date at the beginning of the tar files? I.E If the tar file is called website.tar, would it be possible using shellscript to call that file (date)20012210(&amp;)(time)110<wbr />0website.t<wbr />ar? I.E 200122101100website.tar. Meaning the backup was made at 11:00 on October 22nd 2001.
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Hi, I've a written a small shell script that tar's certain directories and then moves the tar files to a backup directorie. Is it possible to add the time /date at the beginning of the tar files? I.E If the tar file is called website.tar, would it be possible using shellscript to call that file (date)20012210(&)(time)1100website.tar? I.E 200122101100website.tar. Meaning the backup was made at 11:00 on October 22nd 2001.

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The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.