[ale] tar and date

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "Preston" == Preston Boyington <PBoyington at polyengineering.com> writes:


[...]

    Preston> /bin/tar -zcpf /usr/local/share/data/`date
    Preston> +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz /usr/local/share/data/

[...]


    Preston> Does this look remotely correct to anyone?  Anything I am
    Preston> forgetting?

You probably want an --exclude='*.tar.gz' argument to tar since you're
writing the tarballs into the same directory you're tar'ing.

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