[Malvern] A bit of shell scripting

[Chris Eilbeck]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:21:22PM -0000, Robin Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,

Wotcha!

> If possible I'd like to write a shell script that can be run using cron
> which will download a file (maybe using wget) and save it as something
> like the following: SynopticChart_14-07-2004 (for the 14th of July
> 2004). Is there a reasonably simple way to do this in a shell script or
> something similar?

#!/bin/csh

wget http://wherever/whatever.jpg
mv -f whatever.jpg whatever-`date --iso-8601`.jpg



Something like that?

Chris
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