# Assign the current date (timestamp style) as a shell variable, using the Bash # builtin, and make it a suitable filename for a Gzip-compressed Tar archive. printf -v FileName 'Backup_%(%F_%X)T.tgz' -1 # Simple, feature-full, and portable way by which to echo(1) output to STDOUT. # Here, the current user's username is displayed, followed by a new line. printf '%s\n' "$USER" # Using the Bash builtin, this will output one integer per line, from one to # one million, in a human-readable kind of way, by appropriately # comma-separating the units. printf "%'d\n" {1..1000000}