I am running some scripts via crontab and redirecting the output to a file.
For example:
I want to append the system date to the file name so it becomes:
The process runs once a day and I want to keep all the output files and avoid having them overwritten. I have been manually renaming the file to add the suffix but that's a pain.
I have searched these forums and found some discussions of the system date but I cannot figure out how to make the syntax work.
Is what I want to do possible, and if so, what is the syntax for use in crontab?
Thanks for your help.
Maurice
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 03-29-2010 at 04:01 PM..
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