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I have a cron job for creating a gzip file:
mysqldump... | gzip -c > myfile..sql.gz
I want myfile to be of the format "time_date.sql.gz"
myfile
How do I create file with the current date and time?
Thanks
myfile_`date '+%F_%T'`.sql.gz