Around 07:56pm on Monday, August 19, 2013 (UK time), Mark Haney scrawled: > I've hit a problem I can't quite figure out which a bash script I'm > writing. I'm trying to copy backup files in the format > 2013-August-18--1123.zip to an NFS share. I want to have the script copy > the file with just the date. In bash I've setup vars that get the current > date: > > # Date variables > log_year=`date "+%Y"` > log_month=`date "+%B"` > log_day=`date "+%d"` > > # Filename format YYYY_MM_DD--HHMM.zip > filename=$log_year"-"$log_month"-"$log_day"--"/*".zip" > > The problem is I don't really care about the stuff after the '--'. I.e. > from the CLI I'd just 'ls 2013-August-18--*.zip' to get all the files with > that date in the file name. How can I do that in a bash script? Not sure I totally understand what the problem is, but I think if I were doing what I think you may be trying to do, I'd consider using the find command. Steve -- Website: www.stevesearle.com 19:58:18 up 38 days, 23:30, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
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