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I'm looking to set up a crontab that backs up a database every day, but I want the date to go in the filename. The command I'm trying to do ...
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  1. 08-12-2006 #1
    johnkerry2
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    Inserting date into cron command

    I'm looking to set up a crontab that backs up a database every day, but I want the date to go in the filename.

    The command I'm trying to do is:
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    mysqldump --opt -Q -uuser -ppass dbname > dump.sql
    I want the contents to be dumped in dump-YYYYMMDD.sql though. How would I do this?

    Thanks in advance!
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  2. 08-12-2006 #2
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    Look into the "date" command. You can have it output the date whatever way you want. If I'm not mistaken, to get it the way you want you would do:
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    `date +%Y%m%d`
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