problem: Adding date into cron job

[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

[amlife]

Try the following

cp /var/www/html/site1/module.txt /home/amitha/Desktop/backup/module.'date +%F'.txt

[amithad]

hi amlife,

Thanks for the reply. I tried what u say but it gives only the following result not the date.

file name: date +%F.module.txt