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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers customised filename Post 77554 by vino on Monday 11th of July 2005 01:51:04 AM
Old 07-11-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by vasikaran
Hi,

I am taking an output and redirecting it to a file name

and this is a hourly or daily process , in this case, i want my file output as

some logoutput_date_time.txt

how can i form the file name like this

for eg

i am running this command now, so

tail -f /data/logs/xxx/yyy.txt >>logoutput_11072005_1125.txt

what shd i do to get the file name like this,
Code:
tail -f /data/logs/xxx/yyy.txt >>logoutput_$(date +%d%M%Y_%H%M).txt

Check out man date for other options.

vino
 

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lr_cron

LR_CRON.IN(1)						  LogReport's Lire Documentation					     LR_CRON.IN(1)

NAME

       lr_cron - run the perodical jobs configured in a DlfStore.

SYNOPSIS

       lr_cron period store

DESCRIPTION

       lr_cron is designed to be called in a crontab(5) entry.	period should be "hourly", "daily", "weekly", "monthly" or "yearly".  store should
       be the full path name of the DLF Store.

       lire(1) should be used to configure periodical jobs in the store.

       To run jobs as scheduled by lire(1), you will need to setup cron jobs. For each schedule you use, you should configure a cron job to be
       executed according to that period.

       Here is a crontab(5) entry that will make sure that all possible schedules are supported in the /home/flacoste/myStore DLF store:

	05  *  *  *  * lr_run lr_cron hourly  /home/flacoste/myStore
	15 01  *  *  * lr_run lr_cron daily   /home/flacoste/myStore
	15 02  *  * 02 lr_run lr_cron weekly  /home/flacoste/myStore
	15 03 01  *  * lr_run lr_cron monthly /home/flacoste/myStore
	15 04 01  01 * lr_run lr_cron yearly  /home/flacoste/myStore

       .

SEE ALSO

       lire(1)

AUTHOR

       Francis J. Lacoste <flacoste@logreport.org>

VERSION

       $Id: lr_cron.in,v 1.37 2006/07/23 13:16:32 vanbaal Exp $

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004 Stichting LogReport Foundation LogReport@LogReport.org

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, check with
       http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

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