Copy a file with name as date??

chris_ie · #1 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006

Hi I want to copy a file but append the date and time....how?

So copying the file file1.txt will have file1_20061009_0950.txt

I know the command :
date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M"

but how do i get this in the file name ?
cp file1.txt newDirectory/file1_?????????.txt

Thanx

mona · #2 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006

Did you try this

Code:

cp file1.txt newDirectory/file1_`date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M"`.txt

chris_ie · #3 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006

ahhhhhhhhhhh, i rem seeing something like that before:P

Thanks mate!!

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