On 20/06/12 22:22, Andrew Hills wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> tar -zcf "./`date +'%d-%b-%y.tgz'`" /var/log > > This date format will have you cursing yourself if you shut down more > than once in the same day. > I think he will be cursing himself when he realises the logs tend to be most useful after a system crash and using this method he will not have any...