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Can anyone tell me how I create a directory, which is named by the contents of a file?
e.g I want to create a date-stamped directory for backups.
I creat the file using:
date > /backup/date_stamp
then I want to create a sub directory using the contents of the date file just created: e.g. 16 Oct 2008
so I now have a directory '/backup/16 Oct 2008' in which I can dump my backups into. If I can supress the spaces in the directory name, then even better
Thanks in advance
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Creating directories from file contents.
Can anyone tell me how I create a directory, which is named by the contents of a file?e.g I want to create a date-stamped directory for backups.
I creat the file using:
date > /backup/date_stamp
then I want to create a sub directory using the contents of the date file just created: e.g. 16 Oct 2008
so I now have a directory '/backup/16 Oct 2008' in which I can dump my backups into. If I can supress the spaces in the directory name, then even better
Thanks in advance