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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 'Crop' date from filename into a variable Post 302291873 by hard aix on Thursday 26th of February 2009 01:21:55 PM
Old 02-26-2009
how about this:
Code:
d=$(date +"%Y%m%d")
touch myfile.onlytest.$d.txt

 

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NYANCAT(1)						      General Commands Manual							NYANCAT(1)

NAME
nyancat - terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation SYNOPSIS
nyancat [ -hitn ] [-f frames] DESCRIPTION
nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. nyancat makes use of various ANSI escape sequences to render color, or in the case of a VT220, simply dumps text to the screen. OPTIONS
-i, --intro Show introduction / about information on startup. -t, --telnet Enable telnet mode. -n, --no-counter Do not display the timer. -s, --no-title Do not set the titlebar text. -e, --no-clear Do not clear the display between frames. -f, --frames Display the requested number of frames, then quit. -r, --min-rows Crop the animation from the top. -R, --max-rows Crop the animation from the bottom. -c, --min-cols Crop the animation from the left. -C, --max-cols Crop the animation from the right. -W, --width Crop the animation to the given width. -H, --height Crop the animation to the given height. -h, --help Show help message and exit. HOMEPAGE
Homepage: http://miku.acm.uiuc.edu/ Repository: https://github.com/klange/nyancat AUTHOR
nyancat was written by Kevin Lange. This manual page was written by Jonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). May, 2012 NYANCAT(1)
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