Hi I am a novice in Linux. I want to do something in my sles with create a script for my database...my question is :

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2. If I want compress with gzip, can I create the filename with date month year directly . For example : gzip -9 backup30012004 If it is can be... how to make it

tar -zcvpf `date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz Regards, Ben