Answer by Atul Rokade for Appending a current date from a variable to a filename
You can rename file with time stamp appended to it mv TheFile.log TheFile.log.`date +"%d-%m-%Y"`
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Bash script to inject a date into a filename: This bash code in file called a.sh #!/bin/bash today=`date '+%Y_%m_%d__%H_%M_%S'`; filename="/home/el/myfile/$today.ponies" echo $filename; When run,...
View ArticleAnswer by Gilles for Appending a current date from a variable to a filename
You seem to have mixed up several things. set today = 'date +%Y' looks like tcsh syntax, but even in tcsh it assigns the string date +%Y to the variable today, it doesn't run the date command. As...
View ArticleAnswer by Arcege for Appending a current date from a variable to a filename
More than likely it is your use of set. That will assign 'today', '=' and the output of the date program to positional parameters (aka command-line arguments). You want to just use C shell (which you...
View ArticleAnswer by MelBurslan for Appending a current date from a variable to a filename
This: find . -name The_Logs -atime -1 -type d -exec mv {} "The_Logs_${today}" \; & should work. Although, it seems like you are using csh and my solution of removing the + sign may not work for you...
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I'm trying to append the current date to the end of a file name like this: TheFile.log.2012-02-11 Here is what I have so far: set today = 'date +%Y' mkdir -p The_Logs & find . -name The_Logs...
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