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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BASH function to rename file to last mondays date Post 302926216 by junior-helper on Friday 21st of November 2014 09:09:39 PM
Old 11-21-2014
Which date format do you need?

date -d last-monday will produce something like:
Code:
Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 PST 2014

You don't want to rename ~/emails.txt to Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 PST 2014, don't you?

If you want it that way, then you need to quote the $d variable, e.g.
Code:
mv ~/emails.txt ~/myemails/"$d"

 

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