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Old 11-12-2015
Filename with datetime
Hello All,

I need unix command to generate a file with datetime in it.
For example :

ABC_YYYYMMDDHH24MISS.txt

Regards
Biswajeet Ghosh
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Old 11-12-2015
Hello bghosh,

What have tried so far?

Assuming that your code may want to write to the file several times, it' probably best to set a variable early on to set the value and then use that through the rest of your code.

Something like this might help:-
Code:
timestamp=`date +%Y%m%d%h%M%S`

printf "Hello world\n" > ABC_$timestamp.txt

Make sure you read your manual pages for the date command to make sure you have the correct values in this string.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-12-2015 at 11:53 AM.. Reason: Fix typo: s/5M/%M/
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