scripting newbie has question...

["Stone, Timothy" <tstone cityofhbg com>]

Always lurking. Love this list and have learn ed a lot. ;)

I have simple script that works but I would like to make it a bit more robust and have no idea where to begin as I'm a newbie to shell scripting.

Here's the simplicity of it today:

# start ################################

#!/bin/sh

scp -i [key] [server0-log] [local0-log]
scp -i [key] [server1-log] [local1-log]

# end ##################################

This is run as a user cron job daily.

The script is going to work for at least another day. Then I will have to edit it and it will work for another month.

My server logs are named dynamically as so:  %Y%M_server0.log

So the point of all this? How do I add %Y%M features to my script? I don't know C, but decent with Java, so the bridge is not to far to cross. I might be over thinking this and the feature is in the shell.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Warmest Regards,
Tim

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