From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2012-12-02T11:14:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble with date

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Pierre-Andre M. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Im trying to incorporate the date into a directory path
>
> I want to name a folder using the bash command "date +%y%m%d" and then
> call that path later on in the script as in:
>
> # This works great
>   today = `date +%y%m%d`
>   directory = "mkdir -p /Users/me/github/splat/`date +%y%m%d`"
>   exec directory
>
>
> #This part doesnt work
>
>  command = "git clone --mirror https://github.com/org/#{repo_name}.git
> /Users/me/github/splat/`date +%y%m%d`/#{repo_name}/"
>   exec command
>
> As I understand it when the backticks are used it opens a sub shell, how
> can I get that directory name?
>
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>

Seems to be going a long way 'round something pretty simple.

today = Time.now.strftime("%Y%m%d")
save_path = "/Users/me/github/splat/#{today}"
system("mkdir -p #{save_path}")

# ... later

system("git clone --mirror https://github.com/org/#{repo_name}.git
#{save_path}/#{repo_name}")

Adjust scope on variables as necessary...