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Hi,
I want to create a file which will have a name like myfile ending with date and time.
I did :
touch myfile%date
or
touch myfile%date%

But does not work. How to do that ?
Many thanks before.
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Hi,
I want to create a file which will have a name like myfile ending with date and time.
I did :
touch myfile%date
or
touch myfile%date%

But does not work. How to do that ?
Many thanks before.
Code:
touch "myfile$(date)"
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Ok, thank you. but the format is not good. I have :
myfile_Mon Jul 30 09:49:03 CEST 2007

how can I have only :
myfile_30_jul

Thanks again.
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Ok, thank you. but the format is not good. I have :
myfile_Mon Jul 30 09:49:03 CEST 2007

how can I have only :
myfile_30_jul

Thanks again.
Read the man pages of date.
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touch "myfile_$(date +%d_%b)"
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many thanks.
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Hi guy`s

I dont know how to start a threat yet.
but anyway here goes my question?
I have this job that i perform monthly manualy
I have to clear out files about 80000 files a month

This is what i currently use manualy(which takes time)
find . -name '*.200707*' > 07files

#Create tar archive

tar cvf arch_spool_nokia_200707.tar -I 07files

#Delete files added to tar acrhive:

cat 07files | xargs rm

can anyone help me speed up this process or give me some more advice on using Unix as I`m a Newbie
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