To be very clear, I'm not offended in the slightest.

We really do wish to help persons to learn and enable them to help their selves.

My point was, really what I said, and that all anyone here had to go on was your original description. As pan64 also pointed out, the rename solution is flexible, I in fact use it all the time for pictures from phones or cameras to rename them in bulk to what they really should say. It is also a one-liner versus a program or script.

You do have to learn Perl terms, and I resisted, however over the years I've learned to love rename since I have my above described use for it.

In your case, you may have other needs which do not make it so helpful of an option. Best to share your final intended vision so that when we offer advice, we can tailor it to suit what your final intentions are.

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My issue has been solved using Mensawater's code. It didn't work at first because of a missing parenthesis. This is the code:

for file1 in $(ls *[a-z].xlsx)
do
basefile1=$(echo $file1 |awk -F. '{print $1}')
current_time=$(date "+_%m%d%Y.xlsx")

mv $file1 ${basefile1}${current_time}
done

Thank you for all the help!

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@rtmistler......understood, thanks!!

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Glad you got it resolved. Since you got my suggestion to work I'm assuming you figured out that it assumes the original file has the .xlsx extension (in answer to a question you asked above).

I fixed the missing character in above post so people in future will see it. Sorry for the omission.

If you're in Atlanta you might want check out ALE (Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts) which is the LUG (Linux User's Group) here in Atlanta. They are also on meetup.com to announced various meetings and have a fairly active mailing list.

www.ale.org.