Thread: How can I rename a file by its date?
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Old 03-29-2006, 03:20 PM
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Both stat and ls -l are not suitable for this job. Use date command formatting.

Code:
echo $(date +"%b-%d-%y").log.txt
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Code:
NOW=$(date +"%b-%d-%y")
cp log.txt "$NOW.log.txt"
ls *.txt
See our article Creating report/log file names with date in filename for more info http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vi...-reportlog.php
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