01-29-2009
Hi Corona688,
Thanks for ur reply.
Yes , i have to make one cron job for all the days.
But I want the backup file on SAN to be renamed automatically to that particular date.
e;g feb 1st file will be like feb0109.tar
2nd Feb file like feb0209.tar
Can we do that...??? Or any other better suggestion?
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
convdate
CONVDATE(1) General Commands Manual CONVDATE(1)
NAME
convdate - convert time/date strings and numbers
SYNOPSIS
convdate [ -c ] [ -n ] [ -s ] arg...
DESCRIPTION
Convdate translate the date/time strings specified as arguments on its command line, outputing the results one to a line.
OPTIONS
-c If the ``-c'' flag is used, then each argument is taken to be a time_t and is output in ctime format.
-n If the ``-n'' flag is used, then each argument is taken as a date string to be parsed by parsedate(3) and is output as a time_t; see
time(2).
-s If the ``-s'' flag is used, then each argument is taken as a date string to be parsed by parsedate(3) and is output as a string for-
matted by ctime(3). This is the default.
EXAMPLES
% convdate 'feb 10 10am'
Sun Feb 10 10:00:00 1991
% convdate 12pm 5/4/90
Fri Dec 13 00:00:00 1991
Fri May 4 00:00:00 1990
% convdate -n 'feb 10 10am' '12pm 5/4/90'
666198000
641880000
% convdate -c 666198000
Sun Feb 10 10:00:00 1991
HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net>. This is revision 1.5, dated 1996/10/29.
SEE ALSO
parsedate(3).
CONVDATE(1)