[ale] copy with dynamic rename

[ale at netherealm.net (Ron Mellema)]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Andreas [iso-8859-1] 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

I am no expert but I did this with advice of an expert. Below is a sample
of a bash script that runs from cron

#!/bin/sh
PURGE=`date '+%y%m%d'`
cp /var/log/warn /var/log/oldlogs/warn.$PURGE

Ron Mellema

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