filename+date

[zyrag]

i want to copy a text file into my home dir. The filename format that i want to create is something like filename+date.txt, e.g., txtfile0312.txt - where txtfile is the filename and 0312 is the current date. how do i extract the current date and append it to the filename.

thanks,

 

[J1mbo]

Check the man pages for date and strftime for more options on the date command. Something like this should work:

cp txtfile /directory/txtfile`date +%m%d`

This appends the month and day.

-jim