Re: Creating a directory with a date-based name

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

zzapper wrote:
> 
> 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?


integer vers=2

while [[ -d ${dat}v$vers ]]; do
   (( ++vers ))
done
mkdir ${dat}v$vers


(actually the same in bash, as far as I can see.)

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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