Tar, gzip and date in file name
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I often save directories in *.tar.gz files. For some purposes I add the
current date to the file name:
tar czvf mydir-`date +%Y-%m-%d` mydir
It's easy but I always have to type the whole command. Moreover,
directory name have to be typed twice. I have been doing this for years
and on all my *nix machines.
For some reasons, only today I found this to be too annoying. So I have
wrote a short bash script (it might work elsewhere but at the moment I
only tried it with the bash) [1],[2].
References:
[1]
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/jirka/zalohovat
[2]
http://jirka.sdf.org/zalohovat
