Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Everyone . i m kinda newbie so spare me if question seems stupid
what i want to do is something like this

rsh node1 tail -20 /var/opt/fds/statistics/FSC-InapInterface_2.0_A_1-2006-12-24-0000.stat >> node1.txt

now problem is this that in this case the date was 24th december 2006 but that file has new name everyday ( the date portion changes ) , how can i ammend above given line to work like that it gets date from system and then put it in above line .. so that i dont have to change this text every day ..
i hope i m making myself clear . if not kindly lemme know
thanks in advance and waiting for any help

use,

Code:

`date +%Y-%m-%d`

tried this

rsh node1 tail -20 /var/opt/fds/statistics/FSC-InapInterface_2.0_A_1-'date +%Y-%m-%d'-2-0000.stat >> node1.txt


aint working

Be careful with the quotes:
They shoul be: `
Try this way instead, if you like:

Code:

sh node1 tail -20 /var/opt/fds/statistics/FSC-InapInterface_2.0_A_1-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)-2-0000.stat >> node1.txt

Anyway, this last file name is not the same you wrote on your 1st post...

that wont work!

take care of the backticks

Why not assign the system date time to a variable like in the example below.
TIME_SEC=`date +-%Y-%m-%d-%H%M` gives you -2007-01-09-1043
TIME_SEC=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M` gives you 200701091044
You can then use the variable $TIME_SEC in your script.
Hope this helps.