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# 1  
Old 07-11-2012
Add timestamp and copy files
Please help me with a command to find all files in directory and copy them into another with a timestamp. I have
the code to find and copy the files but unable to add timestamp to the files.
Below is the find and copy code which i am using(need to add timestamp)

Code:
find /root/files -name "*.gz" -exec cp {} /root/com \;

# 2  
Old 07-11-2012
Code:
 
find /root/files -name "*.gz" 2>dev/null |while read filename; do cp $filename $filename`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S` ; done

# 3  
Old 07-11-2012
It errors with dev/null is not a directory. Not sure if i am doing anything wrong here
# 4  
Old 07-11-2012
i missed the /

Code:
 
find /root/files -name "*.gz" 2>/dev/null |while read filename; do cp $filename /root/com/$filename`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S` ; done

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# 5  
Old 07-13-2012
Its difficult for me to understand, how your code works? can you explain it?
# 6  
Old 07-13-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by itkamaraj
i missed the /

Code:
 
find /root/files -name "*.gz" 2>/dev/null |while read filename; do cp $filename /root/com/$filename`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S` ; done

This will not work. You'll need to tweak it a bit:

Code:
 
find /root/files -name "*.gz" 2>/dev/null |while read filename; do cp $filename /root/com/${filename##*/}`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S` ; done

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# 7  
Old 07-13-2012
What does this code do,

Code:
find /root/files -name "*.gz" 2>/dev/null

Please explain
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