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Old 12-09-2011
I need to back up a bunch of files on a directory and save that file as the current date....

this is what i have to find the files modified within the past 24 hours
Code:
 find . -mtime -1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar rvf "$archive.tar"

however i need to save/name this archive as the current date (MM-DD,YYYY.tar.gz)

how do i doo this

Last edited by Scott; 12-09-2011 at 01:51 PM.. Reason: Code tags
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Old 12-09-2011
Code:
archive="$(date +%m-%d,%Y)"
find . -mtime -1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar rvf "${archive}.tar"

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