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Old 12th August 2008
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Some people may find the back-quotes visually confusing, here is another option:
$ dump -0Lauf - /var | bzip2 > /home/var.dump-$(date "+%Y.%d.%m").bz2

In this case, anything inside $(..) is executed.

EDIT: My sincere apologies, I forgot I was on the FreeBSD board.. the above will not work in csh.

Last edited by BSDfan666; 12th August 2008 at 07:59 PM.
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