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Old 10-07-2012
Date as suffix in rsync... what am I doing wrong?
Code:
#!/bin/bash
currentdatee=$(date +%D-%R)
rsync -autb --backup-dir="/home/kyle/USBSYNC/OLDFILES/CRUZEREDGE1/" --suffix="$currentdatee" /mnt/backup/* /home/kyle/USBSYNC/CRUZEREDGE1/

The rsync line simply doesn't work when I try this. It'll work if I make the suffix something static. I feel dumb as this is so simple... I've tried every combination of single quotes, $, (), anything I can think of. It just doesn't want to work.
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Old 10-07-2012
The %D format of date uses slash characters between fields.
This character is used in unix as a directory indicator and isn't allowed in filenames.

Try a date format like currentdatee=$(date +%d_%m_%y-%R)
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