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01-26-2007

jhamm

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how do i put a time stamp in a file name

i want to copy a filea.dat to a file name in the format
of filea_yyyymmdd_hhmi.dat

using something like DTSTAMP=$(date "+%Y%m%d"),
which puts it in format filea_yyyymmdd.dat

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