I need to back up a bunch of files on a directory and save that file as the current date....

Shell Programming and Scripting
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this is what i have to find the files modified within the past 24 hours

 find . -mtime -1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar rvf "$archive.tar"

however i need to save/name this archive as the current date (MM-DD,YYYY.tar.gz)

how do i doo this

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archive="$(date +%m-%d,%Y)"
find . -mtime -1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar rvf "${archive}.tar"