[ILUG] Compromised by ssh...

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Stephen Shirley (diamond at skynet.ie):

> On 31/10/06, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> >$ cd /mnt
> >$ tar cvzf /root/etc-$(date -I).tar.gz etc
> 
> Shouldn't that be s/root/mnt/ ?

Wherever's convenient:  It's just a place from which you'll be picking
the file up later for storage.

> >$ dpkg --get-selections > selections-$(date -I)
> 
> Interesting. 'date -I' is not an invocation i'm familiar with, nor is
> it in the date manpage, but it does nonetheless seem to work (and
> usefully too, producing a date of the format YYYY-MM-DD, for those
> like me who this is new to).

I use it a great deal, finding the cited ISO-3339 format much, _much_ 
more logical than most others -- especially the moronic MM/DD/YYYY 
format common in the USA.  You'll of course have noticed that it sorts
correctly in filenames.  ;->