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How to add to the format. 1

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CALYAN

CALYAN

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Apr 23, 2001
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I used this to extract somepart of the date
FILENAME=$(date +%b%d)
printf $FILENAME

It generates output like this.?
Jan13(example)

But I need Jan13.gz

how to add this?

regards
s.kalyan
 
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FILENAME=$(date +%b%d).gz
printf $FILENAME

Jean Pierre.
 
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Try this:
Code: 
FILENAME=$(date "+%b%d.gz")

Hope This Help
PH.
 
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