how to add date to filename

x2000koh · 07-08-2003, 09:04 PM

Hi ! Linux user,
I am working on my tar archieve to create the table of content of tape drive. My command is as follow:

tar -tvf /dev/nst0 > mondaytape

The above is working fine. But I need to add a date so the file name 'mondaytape' will add the current date. So it become 'mondaytape-03July2003'

how can I do that. Appreciate if you can help.

regards,
x2000koh

Cosmo92 · 07-08-2003, 09:44 PM

You should be able to do something like this:

DATE=`date '+%d%m%y'`
tar -tvf /dev/nst0 > file_$DATE

If you read the man page on date you'll see the various formatting options