Re: bashing

[Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>]

"tar czf /path/and/filename.tar victim files here" does compress the
data with gzip, and you can name the file anything you want, so you
could do "tar czf /path/and/filename.tar.gz victim files here" as well.


i am not certain what you are wanting to know for the other part though,
you will need to give me more of a scenerio of what you are trying to
accomplish.

Casey


hbrhodes wrote:
> if i can tell the program TAR to put the date into something by typing
> date '%Y %m%d'.tar, can i do the same with bash?  for instance if i
> make a sh that makes a several tar files, i should be able to tell
> bash to pipe (i think) a command that will keep the tar names without
> me having to type them all in.
>
> tar cZf  date '%Y %m%d'_whatever.tar /home/user1
>
> get 2006 0224 whatever.tar
> get 2006 0225 whatever.tar
> get 2006 0226 whatever.tar
>
> and i want to make these files 'gz' without telling gzip to compress
> each one individually or saying gzip -9 *.tar.  i was looking through
> www.tldp.org, but the bash intro thing wasn't sinking in.
>
> has anyone had experience with telling bash to rename something, and
> how is it done?
>


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