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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rename a file to have Date and Line Count Post 302174191 by timontt on Monday 10th of March 2008 10:07:04 AM
Old 03-10-2008
The simple way as below

>> file content
[root@ganen test]# cat testfile
total 150
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Aug 19 2006 boot
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 5480 Oct 23 22:21 dev
drwxr-xr-x 86 root root 12288 Mar 10 04:03 etc
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 30 20:40 home
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 20 2006 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 23 22:21 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 23 22:21 misc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 7 2007 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 23 22:21 net
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 23 2005 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 99 root root 0 Oct 24 06:20 proc
drwxr-x--- 17 root root 4096 Mar 2 21:44 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Mar 27 2007 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 19 2006 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 23 2005 srv
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Oct 24 06:20 sys
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Mar 10 04:02 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Aug 19 2006 usr
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Aug 19 2006 var


>> rename testfile to current date and line count
[root@ganen test]# mv testfile `date +%m%d%Y`; wc -l `date +%m%d%Y`
22 03102008


Is that something you want?
 

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mojo::date

Mojo::Date(3pm) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   Mojo::Date(3pm)

NAME

       Mojo::Date - HTTP 1.1 date container

SYNOPSIS

	 use Mojo::Date;

	 my $date = Mojo::Date->new(784111777);
	 my $http_date = $date->to_string;
	 $date->parse('Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT');
	 my $epoch = $date->epoch;

DESCRIPTION

       Mojo::Date implements HTTP 1.1 date and time functions according to RFC 2616.

	 Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT	; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123
	 Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036
	 Sun Nov  6 08:49:37 1994	; ANSI C's asctime() format

ATTRIBUTES

       Mojo::Date implements the following attributes.

   "epoch"
	 my $epoch = $date->epoch;
	 $date	   = $date->epoch(784111777);

       Epoch seconds.

METHODS

       Mojo::Date inherits all methods from Mojo::Base and implements the following new ones.

   "new"
	 my $date = Mojo::Date->new;
	 my $date = Mojo::Date->new($string);

       Construct a new Mojo::Date object.

   "parse"
	 $date = $date->parse('Sun Nov	6 08:49:37 1994');

       Parse date in one of the following formats.

	 - Epoch format(784111777)
	 - RFC 822/1123 (Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT)
	 - RFC 850/1036 (Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT)
	 - ANSI C asctime() (Sun Nov  6 08:49:37 1994)

   "to_string"
	 my $string = $date->to_string;

       Render date suitable for HTTP 1.1 messages.

SEE ALSO

       Mojolicious, Mojolicious::Guides, <http://mojolicio.us>.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-09-05							   Mojo::Date(3pm)
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