On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Ron Youvan wrote:
> I need to create a new file every 24 hours and start appending
> these incoming strings into the new file.
> I want to name the files with the current date, so:
> "at" midnight the file: date +.+ log needs to be created,
> such as 12-25-05.log (for next Christmas) as an example.
> I can divert date's string into a file as a text string,
> but I haven't been able to create a file named from date.
date_args=%G_%m_%d
linkname=/tmp/write_here
filename="/tmp/`date +$date_args`"
touch "$filename"
ln -sf "$filename" "$linkname"
or if you don't like all the fancy stuff,
touch "/tmp/`date +%G_%m_%d`"
and have no link.
> man date says: "date - print or set the system date and time"
> It prints the system time, but getting it into a variable
> seems to be my problem.
> I have tried everything that I can think of including:
> touch < date (+formatting info)
>
> Can anyone please point me in the proper direction?
Backquotes aka $(...) are your friends.
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