[Malvern] A bit of shell scripting

[Chris Eilbeck]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:32:44AM +0000, Andy Lowton wrote:
> 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

Don't you need the shell to concatenate "whatever-", the output from
the date command and ".jpg" ?

Chris
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