Dynamically Generate Filename in Cron

[allan]

I need to run a task every four hours, and I want the output of the task to have the date in the filename. Is there a way to do this in cron?

The cron currently looks like this:


0 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * * cd /var/tmp; /bin/sh script.sh >> output.file


I would like the output.file to be replaced with output.timedate

Is this possible?

[allan]

Nevermind, I just wrote a shell script that did this and set the cron to point to the shell script :).