Tick marks

[Tim Childers]

Could someone explaine the tick marks again?

Example:/2 * * * * /sbin/dump 0uf /backup/full/backup-FULL-`date +\%Y-\%d-\%m`.dmp /home

[Jonathan Simms]

The back quotes are a deprecated way of doing command substitution. Another way would be $([i]command[/i]) . Either way does the job.

[keivn dodd]

\%Y-\%d-\ represents a directory and %m.dmp represents a file.
Y and d are variables. The variables are used to be able to run the command as part of a program or loop.

For example %Y could represent an array of home directorys

[Jonathan Simms]

Kevin,

The %Y, %d, %m are all options to the date command they represent year, day, month, respectively. They can be demarcated by a handful of ASCII characters, these are listed in date(1). They have backlashes because they have been escaped.