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Hi

Am having issue on appending time stamp

I know the exact file names in the directory like

a.dat
b.dat
c.dat
e.dat
f.dat

I want to read all these file names and append the timestamp to each files like
a.dat.20090604,b.dat.20090604 and move to the different directory.

FILE_NAMES="a.dat b.dat c.dat d.dat e.dat"
echo $FILE_NAMES >file1
while read line
do
mv $line /ac/de/$line.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`
done<file1

This not working ,since we are decalring the filenames in a single line.

Please help/suggest me the method to do this.

How about that:

Code:

for NAME in $FILE_NAMES
do
   mv $NAME /ac/de/$NAME.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`
done

Prabhu,

you can do it in two ways:

1> If you have to write the file name in single line then you need to cut each file name before you add the time stamp.

you can try some thing like this

Code:

`cut -d" " -f1 $line`.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`

you need to have a counter for cutting the feilds ( -f$i )

2> Second way is to write 1 file name per line.

in this case your logic should work.

Let us know if you need further help!

Thanks Alot For the prompt reply GUYS!!
appriciated!!
It worked!!