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9 Jul
2003
9 Jul
'03
23:21
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 18:48 pm, Johannes Liedtke wrote: <snip>
I'd use
tar cjvf /mount/tom/coo-`date +%y%m%d%H%M`.tgz /home/tom/cxoffice ^^^
Uumm, shouldn't that be .tar.bz2 rather than .tgz? Of course, you can call it .bunch-of-bananas if you wan't but ...
and you're file has got a neat timestamp in the name... (if you want to do that automagically)
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