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Old 10-09-2006
Copy a file with name as date??
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
# 2  
Old 10-09-2006
Did you try this

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

# 3  
Old 10-09-2006
ahhhhhhhhhhh, i rem seeing something like that before:P

Thanks mate!!
 
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