move a file to same location with a different extention

chasegger · 06-25-2008, 02:34 PM

I have a rsyncd.log file that I would like to move on a weekly basis.
If possible I would like to take this rsycnd.log file and move it to same location with the current MMDDYY extention

ex: mv rsyncd.log rsyncd.log.062508 << How can I script to add current
date timestamp.

Thank you

ncsuapex · 06-25-2008, 03:06 PM

you can add this to where you want the date `date +%b%d_%H%M%P_%Y`

play around with the format but that will give you Jun25_1605pm_2008 format Monthdate_time_year

bigrigdriver · 06-25-2008, 03:08 PM

mv rsyncd.log rsyncd.log.$(date \+\%Y%m%d)

jomen · 06-25-2008, 03:32 PM

In some distributions there is a package you can install which does exactly this.
On Gentoo it is called "logrotate" - Debian has it too as well as probably many others.
Moves and compresses the logs as you configure it and can mail it too...

chrism01 · 06-25-2008, 06:21 PM

Put your distro in your profile, so we can see it. Logrotate is designed for sort of this task and most distros have it.