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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Append current date to filename Post 302080533 by gigigi on Wednesday 19th of July 2006 12:34:04 PM
Old 07-19-2006
CPU & Memory Append current date to filename
In C Shell programming I haven't successfully been able to append the date in the format mmddyyyy to a filename. I've tried the following:

I can print out the date in the correct format: date +%x | sed ‘s/\///g
I can create a variable with the filename: set newfile=changedfiles
I can use the mv command: mv changedfiles.tar “$newfile”

I cannot figure out how to append the current date to the file named in $newfile.
Thanks
 

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px_date2string

PX_DATE2STRING(3)					     Library Functions Manual						 PX_DATE2STRING(3)

NAME

       PX_date2string -- Convert paradox date into formated string

SYNOPSIS

       #include <paradox.h>

       char * PX_date2string(pxdoc_t *pxdoc, long date, const char *format)

DESCRIPTION

       Creates	a  string  representation  of  a  paradox  date  as  specified	in  the  parameter format.  The date must be either retrieved with
       PX_get_data_long(3)  after  calling  PX_get_record(3)  or  by  simply  using  the  long	value  in  the	pxval_t  struct  as  returned	by
       PX_retrieve_record(3).  The function uses internally the PX_timestamp2string(3) function.  The format string may contain all chars as docu-
       mented with PX_timestamp2string(3), though only those concerning the date will produce resonable results.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns pointer to string on success and NULL on failure.

SEE ALSO

       PX_timestamp2string(3), PX_time2string(3)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx.

																 PX_DATE2STRING(3)
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