Is there a date stamp way to name a file ?

[Donovan]

Hi, is there a way to include a time or date stamp when I move a file ?

For example:
mv filename filename+date

?

Donov

[njcajun]

Well, I guess you could probably do 'man date' and it'll probably give you a way to do it in there, but just so you know, the date last modified is listed with the file when you do 'ls -l'.


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[Donovan]

Yes, I know, but I would like to be able to generate files with different names each times, and a data stamp seems a good way to do it. I'll man date anyway.

Thanks,
Donov

[ascend]

not sure i really follow the question...

you can time stamp a file using
ascend# touch -t mmddyyyy filename

which will make the "last modified time" equal to the date specified.


if you want to rename the file to a file named by the dat, you could write a little script.
it would have to saying something like:

...
FILE=$1
NEW_FILE=$(date +%m%d%y)
mv $FILE $NEW_FILE
...


Today, that would move the file to 12012000. Does that help at all?


[This message has been edited by ascend (edited 01 December 2000).]