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Old 10-31-2003
Bug want to list with a date
hi
i want date in the format dd/mm/yyyy as the prefix to my file and then want to list for the file pretaining to particular day using any simple command like ls -lt etc
like if i want a listing of all files pretaining to 3 march i should get them using some simple command like ls -lt
any idea on that
thanks in advance
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Old 10-31-2003
Well, you can't have a slash in the name - it's not allowed.

If you have a file already and want to rename it, you can use something like mv yourFile `date +%d%m%Y`yourFile and it will change aFile.txt to 31102003aFile.txt.

Then if you want to list a particular date, use ls -lt 31102003*
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Old 10-31-2003
thanx for the solution
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