RE: scripting newbie has question...

[Eric Ladner <eladner goldinc com>]

Shorter version:

date '+Date: day=%d month=%m year=%y'


On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 06:58, Stone, Timothy wrote:
> Mike and all,
> 
> Worked like a charm! Thanks!
> 
> Wishing you a happy new year!
> 
> Tim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mklinke axsi com [mailto:mklinke axsi com]
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:54 PM
> To: Stone, Timothy
> Subject: Re: scripting newbie has question...
> 
> 
> Tim, 
> 
> Will this help?
> 
> Regards, Mike Klinke
> 
> 
> -------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> #
>  
> DAY=`date +%d`
> MON=`date +%m`
> YEAR=`date +%y`
> 
> echo "Date: day=$DAY month=$MON year=$YEAR"  
> 
> -------------------
> 
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
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Eric Ladner <eladner goldinc com>