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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding date and time to file name Post 302471735 by cc_at_work on Monday 15th of November 2010 01:10:18 AM
Old 11-15-2010
Adding date and time to file name
Hi All,

i wanted to add date and time to the file names in the same directory so lets say a file in the directory is test.txt then after running the shell script it should be test-15-11-2010.txt.

So I used the following script which works,
Code:
#!/bin/bash

thetime=`date +%Y-%m-%d--%H:%M:%S` #
for i in *.txt
do 
      mv $i ${i%.txt}$(date "+_%Y%m%d.txt")
done

But it does work only for .txt files I want to modify it so that it can take any file extension.

Thank you.
Last edited by Scott; 11-15-2010 at 02:49 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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