Date/Time in command line

[gsg]

Is there an easy way to get tcadmin to put the current date and time in a command line? For some log files, you have to specify the name of the logfile, and when it includes the date, I can't figure out how to put said date in.

[Dennis]

For most games, you can specify a file that the game should use to log the output.

[gsg]

yes, thats what i'm saying. I want to include the current date and time as part of the log file name. and that has to be specified in the command line. I can't figure out how to get tcadmin to parse the command line in such a way as to include the date and time.

[Dennis]

And what I meant was that you can set the name of the log file in the server's command line most of the time.

[gsg]

Ok... maybe an example will help..

 

In my command line ( for linux server ), lets say its -run -server -log DATEGOESHERE

 

What variable or value do I need to use to get it to replace DATEGOESHERE with the.. date. I tried `date %y-%m-%d` but it just processes that directly and doesn't replace it with the actual date.