shrinking backup files

[Sebastian M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=sch]

Hi,

Once upon a time Ivan Guadalupe Terán Quijada wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> How can I add the date into the backup filename???

Instead of using

tar czvf archive.tar.gz source

Use Shell-Substitution. For example ...

tar czvf archive_`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz source

The place between the `-quotes is substituted with the output of the command
within the quotes ... Today it would be 20051004. So the created file is
archive_20051004.tar.gz.

Cu
Sebastian 

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