get the timestamp as a log filename

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Genti A. Hila um 18:29:
> Does anyone know to get the timestamp as the name of log files instead of just the name and some numbers after it ?
> I am thinking to keep hourly log files for PIX and for a month would be really a lot of work to find out when a certain file was created.
> 
> Thanks in advance

cp -a file.log intrusion-`date +"%Y.%m.%d_%X"`.log && > file.log

For other formats of date see "date --help".

Alexander


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