Date in the file name(cron)

[amithad]

Hi,

I tried to write a cron job in Fedora13 as follows

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#!/bin/bash

today='date +%d%m%Y'

cp /var/www/html/site1/module.txt /home/amitha/Desktop/backup/$today.module.txt

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I want the module file in the html folder to be backed up by attaching the date to it's name but it's not working properly

an advice is appreciated

thanks

amitha

[Rubberman]

Well, you are using regular single quote characters in today='date +%d%m%Y' but you need to us backquotes as in today=`date +%d%m%Y`

[amithad]

Hi Rubberman,

Thanks a lot for the help It works perfectly

Thanks and Regards

amitha

[Rubberman]

Happy to help.