[Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

[Gerry Creager]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Carl Makin wrote:
> 
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> RIGHTNOW=`date +%Y%M%d%H%M`
>>
>> if [ -f 'snapshot.jpg' ]; then
>>        mv snapshot.jpg archive/snapshot-$RIGHTNOW.jpg
>> fi
> 
> I was going to use the Unix Epoch timestamps, and check that the
> file was actually done being written, but yea, that's the idea.

Personally, I think you ought to use the MD5 of the image as a seed for 
a RAND, and use that as the filename.  A similar approach could be used 
for the extension.
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