Insert date question

tickticker wrote:
> Most excellent, Thanks to those who responded. The problem I had had, and you
> all pointed it out in a round about way, was to call the date command in the
> cp command. I see it is now simply called in the `` marks, with the switches
> betwixt a couple single quote marks. I'll assume the '<command>` can be used
> in this fashion for the most part with most commands of this sort, much like
> the | or piping of commands is.
>

Sorta... The options (switches) don't normally go inside single quotes. The
date command is using this string for formatting information.

ie:
$ date '+%b-%d-%Y-%T'
See the man page for more information.

if:
$ date -I

gives you the format you wanted,
$ cp Update Update_`date -I`

would work.

The O'Reilly book, Learning Bash is a good one.

Thurman teaches a beginning Unix class most semesters at SCC, and he covers a
lot of this stuff.

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