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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Insert date/time within a filename Post 88601 by vino on Monday 7th of November 2005 07:37:58 AM
Old 11-07-2005
Check this out.

Code:
#! /bin/sh

for FILE in firstjd secondjo thirdjv
do
        NAME_LEN=${#FILE}
        FILE_END=${FILE:$NAME_LEN-2:$NAME_LEN}
        FILE_START=${FILE%$FILE_END}
        NEW_NAME=$FILE_START$(date +%s)$FILE_END

        mv $FILE $NEW_NAME
done

Edit: You might want to look into man date for other possible output formats of date.

vino
Last edited by vino; 11-07-2005 at 08:45 AM..
 

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