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Hi All, How can I tar all files in a directory to include the date it was tar.I already have a script to find the files that are older than Xdates,now I need to tar these files to have the format FILENAME-DDMMYY.tar Thanks Kayzone

Name: lchi2000g
Date: August 10, 2006 at 12:44:24 Pacific

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tar -cvf filename-`date +%d%m%y`.tar <files> Luke Chi

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