Date in output filename 1

[moria6]

Would like some help in inserting the date in the filename output from a perl program as such:

something.pl >> cfg072105.txt
something1.pl >> sam072105.txt

etc....

so output to a 3-letter desgination + mmddyy + .txt

Thanks in advance!


maurie

 

[duncdude]

use backticks (not single speechmarks)

print `date "+%d%m%y"`;

Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[moria6]

Thanks, Duncan!

This worked for me:

#!/bin/bash
DATE=`date +'%m%d%y'`

something.pl >> cfg${DATE}.txt
something1.pl >> sam${DATE}.txt
.
.
.


Thanks again!


maurie

 

[stefanwagner]

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[SamBones]

Yeah, [tt]MMDDYY[/tt] or [tt]DDMMYY[/tt] gives screwy sort orders in directory listings. I always use [tt]YYYYMMDD[/tt] and files automagically list chronologically. Makes it very easy to find oldest and newest files.

DATESTAMP=$(date '+%Y%m%d')
TIMESTAMP=$(date '+%H%M%S')

something1.sh >> cfg.${DATESTAMP}.txt
something2.sh >> sam.${DATESTAMP}.${TIMESTAMP}.txt

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Hope this helps.

 

[moria6]

Thanks for the tip, Sam! Starting out there aren't so many files and I wouldn't have had a problem but after a while I'd have a huge directory to sort / search thru and THAT would have been painful.

Thanks again!


maurie