How to copy set of files with date appended to their name

sish78 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008

Hi gurus,

I have set of files in a directory

ex : test_file1.csv
test_file2.csv
test_file3.csv

my requirement is to copy these files into another directory but with date appended to the name :

like after copying the files should look like : test_file1_07072008.csv
test_file2_07072008.csv
test_file3_07072008.csv

is this possible an di fpossible can we perform in a single unix command?

any help is apprecaited.

thanks

radoulov · #2 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008

You can write something like this:

Code:

dt=$(date +%d%m%Y)
for f in *csv; do 
  mv "$f" another_directory/"${f%.csv}_$dt.csv"
done

sish78 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008

thanks for the prompt response, is there nay other way of doing it

--like using in a single unix command line.

radoulov · #4 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008

There are many ways of doing it, the question is why you don't want to use the one above ...

sish78 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008

I'm using an ETL TOOL which takes an unix command with parmaeters, so i was looking at that method only.

radoulov · #6 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008

What are the parametrs that you want to pass? Destination directory and filenames?

sish78 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008

Yes. source directory ,destination directory and file pattern.

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