On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:57:27PM +0000, Ron Youvan wrote:
> Hi all:
> IF I run date as date '+%s' it gives me the seconds
> since the beginning of time, (1-1-1970 I think) is
> there a formula or utility that will convert it to
> the date and time?
> I want to automatically create error and log files
> that have unique filenames without my intervention.
> (if I don't rename they get overwritten)
> Getting d=date '+%s' then:
> 2>&1 | tee /hdb/files.iso/$d$1.mklog
> in my script files to work isn't going so well either!
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
I do this in mutt to save traffic into files by date with the following:
date +%Y%m
which gives
200106
for this month.
Make it
date +%Y%m%d
and you'll get
20010611
HTH,
Paul
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