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Old 02-19-2016
Append orginal file date to end of file
Trying to process 1000 or so files. Take original date and append to end of file. Like so:
Code:
 tstpls42.bas
 tstpls42.bas.Sep-11--2011

Been working along these lines:
Code:
date=`ll tstpls42.bas |cut -c 46-57 |sed -e 's/[[:space:]]/\-/g' | grep -v '^$'`

for i in  *.bas  ;  do j=`ll $i /hpdump/b1 | awk '{print $1 };'` cp $i $i.$date; done

keep getting same date stamp on all files. Sep-11--2012.
Can figure out the loop
thanks
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-19-2016 at 12:53 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
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Old 02-19-2016
What else would you expect? You create the date variable once, outside the loop, and then reuse it over and over within...
Do you have the stat command? Try
Code:
stat -c"%n.%y" * | cut -f1 -d" "
file1.2016-02-18
file1~.2016-02-17
file2.2016-02-19
file2~.2016-02-18
file3.2016-02-19

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