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rename a file to todays date.
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GoldenEternity
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data_`date +%m%d%Y`.zip will give you data_061101.zip. Try playing around with it...
Look at the man pages for "date" to see the myriad ways of expressing the date. You can use this command in a script like this. Say you want to run something and save the output to a file with today's date as the extention you could do this:
cat foo > foobar.`date +%j` those are backticks not single quotes, and there is a space between date and the +%j
This would put the output of your command in a file called
foobar.162 d3funct
zimmer.jon@cfwy.com
The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.
cat foo > foobar.`date +%j` those are backticks not single quotes, and there is a space between date and the +%j
This would put the output of your command in a file called
foobar.162 d3funct
zimmer.jon@cfwy.com
The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.
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