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Old 12th August 2008
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Originally Posted by cwhitmore View Post
I tried using the new varialbe name, but instead of creating a name with the date the filename comes out exactly as typed in the code above "var.dump- date +%d.%m.%Y.bz2"
What am I missing? I couldn't find anything on this at the freebsd site.
The orginal command is correct and you left out the backtick (`).
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