backup cvs tree and attach time stamp on the backup files: [terrence@igloo doc]$ tar cvf - * | ssh terrence@bucket '( cd ~/work/ipreg; tar xvf -; tar cvf igloo-cvs.tar *; gzip igloo-cvs.tar; mv igloo-cvs.tar.gz ../igloo-cvs.tar.gz-`date +"%Y%m%d"` )' |