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Old 03-10-2008
Power Rename a file to have Date and Line Count
Hi, I am trying to come with one line command which will rename a file to have Date (MMDDYYYY) and Line Count in the file. Any lead will be appreciated

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Old 03-10-2008
to rename file, use mv
to get date, use date. see man page for info
to get line count, use wc. see man page for info.
you can don't think of that one line command for now.
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Old 03-10-2008
The simple way as below

>> file content
[root@ganen test]# cat testfile
total 150
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Aug 19 2006 boot
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 5480 Oct 23 22:21 dev
drwxr-xr-x 86 root root 12288 Mar 10 04:03 etc
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 30 20:40 home
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Mar 27 2007 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 20 2006 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 23 22:21 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 23 22:21 misc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 7 2007 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 23 22:21 net
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 23 2005 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 99 root root 0 Oct 24 06:20 proc
drwxr-x--- 17 root root 4096 Mar 2 21:44 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Mar 27 2007 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 19 2006 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 23 2005 srv
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Oct 24 06:20 sys
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Mar 10 04:02 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Aug 19 2006 usr
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Aug 19 2006 var


>> rename testfile to current date and line count
[root@ganen test]# mv testfile `date +%m%d%Y`; wc -l `date +%m%d%Y`
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