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Old 11-08-2011
bash script to create txt files based on timestamp
Hi ,
please guide me for a bash script that will create a txt files and the name of the txt files will be as of timestamp so that each file name will be different from other and these files will be get created say after every 10 minutes in a folder(/home/p2000/sxs137), please guide me how would be the bash script would be...!!Smilie
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Old 11-08-2011
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$ while [ 1 ] ; do touch /home/p2000/sxs137/$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).txt ; sleep 600 ;done

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