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Re: set names for backup files

2002-06-25 09:20:27
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Nikolaus Hiebaum wrote:

Hello -

I am using the backup mechanism described in the procmailex.

:0 c
backup

:0 ic
| cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,36d`

The messages in the backuop folder look like this one: msg.tVmI

It's hard to find out which is the one I may be looking for. :)

How can I make the part after the msg. to - say - be composed of year,
month, and date?

I tried this:
| cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.`date +%d%m%Y_%H%M`| sed -e 1,36d`
but to no avail.

Any suggestions?


        Try to make directory witch named by the date:

D=`date '+%m%d'`
:0 c
* ? mkdir -p /var/spool/backup.${D}
/var/spool/backup.${D}

:0 ic
| ls /var/spool/backup.* | head -36 | xargs rm -rf


        Or name the folder (not directory) by date:

D=`date '+%m%d'`
:0 c
/var/spool/backup/${D}

:0 ic
| ls /var/spool/backup/* | head -36 | xargs rm -rf


Bye,
 Udi

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