Add date to filename

[beaster]

I forget how to add a date/timestamp to a the file I am creating in a script....Can someone help me?

Like:

tod=

then I am gonna

cp current_file new_alarms-$date

also I want to ftp only the newest file over to my nt machine inside the script. I have the ftp working, But need to know how to pick up the newest file to ftp?????

Thanks as always,
Beaster

 

[polar1]

You could use grave accents:
tod=`date`

Then refer back with $tod.