Finding the last in a file list ..

hrafn · 03-21-2005, 03:36 AM

Hi,

I'm making a bash script and I need to have it copy files to a new name with a date suffix like:

cp file1 file1%Y%m%d%H%M

whoud give me: file1200503210936

How can I actually make this thing work ?

thanks.

druuna · 03-21-2005, 03:45 AM

Hi,

This will work:
cp file1 file1.`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M'`

If all the files need the same date stamp you could store the date string in a variable and append that variable to the filename:

DATE="`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M'`"
cp file1 file1.${DATE}

Hope this helps.