On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:41, EmbraceThePenguin wrote: > Hello All, > > I wish to create a script that will copy the contents of a directory to > another location. Not a big deal at all, however, prior to copying the > data, I want to the script to mkdir a directory for the new data and I > want the directory name to be the date and time stamp of the time the copy > happened. I wish to use this script in a cron job. > > How would I go about creating a folder using the current time and date? mkdir `date +'%d%b%Y_%H%M%S'` -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
