[LBo] howto generate file names with dates for TAR backups?

[Anita Lewis]

On 02/05/2007 06:54 AM Andrew Henry wrote:
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> but I only want a portion of the date without spaces so that I can later
> concatenate it to the file name:
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> backup-level0-[date].tar.
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> 1.  How to I truncate the date command?
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> 2.  How do I concatenate it to the end of my file name?
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> --andrew
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I'm using Stefan's method.  Is this close to what you want?

http://linuxbasics.org/tutorials/advanced/realworld/backup_your_data#tar

The meat of it is:

export FN=3D`date +%Y-%m-%d-%a-%Hh%M.tgz`
time tar cvfz /save/storage/Daily-$FN /important-data

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