File renaming with date timestamp

Sunitha_edi82 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008

Hi,

This is my script:

#! /usr/bin/ksh
cd /app/chdata/workflow/suppl/esoutput/spd/testing
for file in /app/chdata/workflow/suppl/esoutput/spd/testing
do
sort *.txt | awk '{ file=substr($0,1,2)".txt"; print >> file }'
mv *.txt file_`date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`.txt
done

Here, I am trying to rename all the files say *.txt to *_date.txt.

However, Its throwing an error.

Please help.

Regards,
Sunitha

ynilesh · #2 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008

what error ?

- nilesh

era · #3 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008

You probably mean

Code:

for file in *.txt; do
  mv "$file" file_`date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`.txt
done

Sunitha_edi82 · #4 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008

Thanks for the reply

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