From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5830 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2003 10:45:45 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Dec 2003 10:45:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 16802 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2003 10:45:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6906 Received: (qmail 16776 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2003 10:45:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Dec 2003 10:45:16 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [80.91.224.249] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 17 Dec 2003 10:45:15 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWZB5-0006be-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:45:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWZB3-0006bV-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:45:13 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWZB3-0005PU-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:45:13 +0100 From: zzapper Subject: Creating a directory with a date-based name Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:45:09 +0000 Message-ID: <1kc0uvc2je7sklkfapdogigrl93fhhk0p2@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Sender: news Hi Ya, I'm a zsh newbie. I have the following bash script, which will create a directory say 06Dec03 if this directoryy exists then create 06Dec03v2 I need to enhance it to create 06Dec03v3,4,5,6 etc. should these directories exist. How would this best be done in zsh? dirbackup="c:/backup/mysqlnext/" cd $dirbackup eval dat=$(date.exe '+%d%b%y') if ! mkdir $dat then dat=$dat"v2" if mkdir $dat then echo "created $dat" fi fi cd $dat zzapper (vim & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips