hello,
can anyone tell me how to rename a filename in a script to contain the current date?
i have searched for the answer but with little success!
many thanks
rkap (4 Replies)
Hi buddies,
I have a doubt. I want to display filename with date in the following format.Is there any way to do this. Kindly give me the solution.
I want to display the result in the following manner.
test1.txt 03/28/2008
testlog.log 02/20/2008
Please let me know one solution how to do... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am a beginner in Unix so please bear with me...
I have a directory which has files in format: RECF-YYYY-MM-DD-input. For example, RECF-2008-02-25-input. I need to extract the YYYYY-MM-DD substring from this filename and convert that into date and compare it with a date. How do I do that?... (7 Replies)
Hi i am currently using below command in shell script and calling it from cron job.
This is to take daily backup with the date as suffix to the file.When i try i unable to get the date suffixed to the backup file.
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Hi all
I have the following question:
With this command, I get the latest file in a directory.
lastfile =`ls -1tr | tail -n 1`
echo $lastfile
The output is then:
partner131210.txt (meaning 13th December 2010)
My goal is to get the date into a variable and to obtain a final variable... (4 Replies)
I am using ksh93 on Solaris.
Ok, this may seem like a simple request at first. I have a directory that contains sets of files with a YYYYMMDD component to the name, along with other files of different filespecs. something like this:
20110501_1.dat
20110501_2.dat
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Hello,
I'd like to write a monthly archive script that archives some logs. But I'd like to do it based on yesterday's date. In other words, I'd like to schedule the script to run on the 1st day of each month, but have the archive filename include the previous month instead.
Here's what I... (5 Replies)
Suppose i have a list of files in a directory as mentioned below
1. Shankar_04152019_ny.txt
2. Gopi_shan_03122019_mi.txt
3. Siva_mourya_02242019_nd.txt
..
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1000 . Jiva_surya_02282019_nd.txt
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