In need of a bit of shellish magic

[Ben Scott]

On 6/2/06, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
>  % timeStamp="`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'`"

  FYI, "date -I" is much easier to type.  Make it "date -Is" if you
need it down to the seconds.

  The "-I" switch is short for ISO-8601, which apparently specifies
dates as "all numeric, most significant component first".  Which is
handy, because then the files sort properly in directory listings.

-- Ben