Tom Grace grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 19/02/13 14:24, tsit...@linuxmail.org wrote: >> any suggestions please? > > Have a look at the output of "date --help", under the FORMAT section. > You want something like "date +%b" to get "Feb". You might also consider > naming the files year-numerical_month to make sorting easier later.
Yea, what he said. When I'm squirreling away stuff, I prefer to end up
with files that have (for example) 201302, 201303 (Feb, Mar) since
they'll sort automatically when doing a ls command. So if you want to
be able to see your files nicely sorted in order, Tom's got the right idea.
--Dave
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