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Thank you very much for the explanation and example of this script. I had to install korn shell for the command interpreter, but at 330KB I think I can spare the diskspace.

;)

Here is a link...

Gorgeous man !

Using either:

b=$(date --date="5 weeks ago" +%d_%b_%Y)

OR

b=$(date --date="35 days ago" +%d_%b_%Y)

gives me the $b variable value (Apr_24_2005 in the preceding example)...

I'm new to this board and didn't realize the FAQ section wasn't in relation to how the board itself works. So thanks for the link, I'll give it a read.

Rick D.

I have a little bash shell script which is used to backup files (via cron) to an NASLite server every 7 days.

a=$(date +%b_%d_%Y)
tar -lcpf /tmp/laptopbackup.$a.tar /home
ncftpput 192.168.0.5...