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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to copy set of files with date appended to their name Post 302212460 by radoulov on Monday 7th of July 2008 04:11:53 PM
Old 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

 

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