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Old 10-13-2005
Insert Time and Date Stamp

I have a directory with following files in it

ABC.000.DAT
ABC.001.DAT
ABC.002.DAT
ABC.003.DAT

I want to insert time and date stamp in file names like
ABC.000.YYYYMMDDHHMM.DAT

I able to insert the time and date stamp at the end of filename

Kindly help
# 2  
Old 10-13-2005
Have a look at man date. It will give you all the information you need.

FILE.1.`date +%Y` will give you FILE.1.05

Similiarly use the other options available for date to generate your file name.
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