[Malvern] A bit of shell scripting

Andy Lowton andy at dragonfly.demon.co.uk
Fri Dec 3 09:32:09 GMT 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 21:37 +0000, Chris Eilbeck wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:21:22PM -0000, Robin Wilson wrote:

> #!/bin/csh
> 
> wget http://wherever/whatever.jpg
> mv -f whatever.jpg whatever-`date --iso-8601`.jpg

If you condense it into one line then you don't even need the script you
can just put the command straight into cron i.e

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

l8z

andy




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