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proper date and concatenation for filename

I'm trying to the date in the proper format so I can put it as a variable.

The format is: 2008-08-01

What I want is to have this date variable(2008-08-01) then concatenate other stuff to make a proper filename.

so... dateVariable + "-" + otherVariable + ".mov"

ex:
2008-08-01-filename-is-all-lower-with-dashes-to-make-linux-happy.mov

Any ideas?

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Here you go:

DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)

FILENAME="${DATE}-${OTHER_VARIABLE}.mov"

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