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Re: [tlug] Setting Date Variable for Cron Job



Thanks to all for the advice on the Cron line, and especially to
Stephen, for the detailed instruction.

It now works the way it should.

Regards,

Chuck


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> >>>>> "Charles" == Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com> writes:
> 
> cp -f /home/chuck/.emacs /home/chuck/Documents/programming/emacs-`date+"%Y%m%d"`.txt
> 
> (1) As a matter of style, you should put the `+' inside the "".
> (2) You don't need the "".
> (3) You _do_ need a space between the "data" and the "+" -- it's
>     protected by the backquotes, so it doesn't break up the file name.
> (4) You should get in the habit of doing this in stages, eg
> 
> TIMESTAMP=`date+"%Y%m%d"`
> cp -f /home/chuck/.emacs /home/chuck/Documents/programming/emacs-$TIMESTAMP.txt
> 
> The reason is that as you start doing more complex things, you'll want
> to manipulate the same file later, eg
> 
> TIMESTAMP=`date+"%Y%m%d"`
> cp -f /home/chuck/.emacs /home/chuck/Documents/programming/emacs-$TIMESTAMP.txt
> gzip -9 /home/chuck/Documents/programming/emacs-$TIMESTAMP.txt
> 
> There are ways to do this without the variable, but they're either
> less reliable, or harder to understand and debug.
> 
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