get the current date and use it in a filename

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Published on 2010-05-11T20:25:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 20:34 UTC
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I'm trying to do something like this:

mysqldump --user c1bt3 --password=blah c1bt3 > c1bt{date}.sql

where date is replaced with the current date, i.e. c1bt5-11-10.sql, and I'm trying to do it from a linux shell script.

Any ideas how I can do this?

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