[ale] copy with dynamic rename

[esoteric at atlnet.com (Wandered Inn)]

Wandered Inn wrote:
> 
> Andreas K??pp wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> > I've got to copy and gzip all files of an directory with a cronjob but
> > the files got to be renamed in a way that the result looks like this:
> > originalname.<date>.gz
> 
> gzip < originalname > originalname.$(date '+%m%d%y').gz

To be Y3K prepared:

gzip < originalname > originalname.$(date '+%m%d%Y').gz

> 
> >
> > What is the best way to handle it?
> >
> > Thanks Andreas
> 
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