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Originally Posted by zTodd

I think Vidyad meant that last line to be
mv syslog.log syslog.log.$date && gzip syslog.log.$date &&
scp syslog.gz jdoe@system.com:\home\jdoe\logs

But I'm not sure about that $date variable- does that work? I think in the shell I've been using I had to use `date` command instead.

hope this will solve your doubt

Code:

 
fnsonlu1-/home/fnsonlu1> date=`date`
fnsonlu1-/home/fnsonlu1> echo $date
Tue Mar 17 12:25:51 IST 2009
fnsonlu1-/home/fnsonlu1>date="vidya"
fnsonlu1-/home/fnsonlu1> echo $date
vidya
fnsonlu1-/home/fnsonlu1>

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