Pls help with little bash script

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:25 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to automate backup process into crontab.
> What I usually manually do is:
> tar zcvf filename-date.tar.gz /somedirectory
> 
> Can anyone help me with the script needed that can include the date in the 
> filename?

What format would you like the date to be in? Give an example.

Paul.
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