How to append a string to a file name?

anandkj · 01-10-2008, 03:20 AM

Hi all,

I have a file named "accesslog". I have another file named "a" which contains a text string, say "Jan-10-14-29-29".

I would like to know how can I append the content of the file "a", that is "Jan-10-14-29-29" to the filename accesslog.

I am expecting an output like : "accesslogJan-10-14-29-29

Tried to do it with tr,sed etc..but couldn't. I am trying to do this within a bash script.

Thanks in advance.
anand

kotnik · 01-10-2008, 03:41 AM

mv accesslog accesslog.`cat a`

anandkj · 01-10-2008, 08:10 PM

Hi kotnik,

Thanks a lot for the reply. It works!

cheers!
anand