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I am using AIX version 5.1
I would like to copy my log files to another directory and timestamp them or add the date to the file name so I can distinguish them apart and keep 4weeks of files in this directory.
so I usally do this

cp rptlog /dump/backup.log.files

I would like the the file name after I copy it to the /dump to be rptlog111603
Can I do this ?

cp rptlog /dump/backup.log.files/rptlog111603
or would it be

cp rptlog /dump/backup.log.files rptlog111603

Thank you

cp rptlog /dump/backup.log.files/rptlog111603

you could try such easy steps with small files ...

greetings Preßy

cp rptlog /dump/backup.log.files/rptlog111603



thank you the above worked great


Rocker

You can make it even more dynamic and less error prone (assuming that you are scripting this) by making the date string an automatic:

cp rptlog /dump/backup.log.files/rptlog`date +%m%d%y`

I'd more prone to setup your dates in a year - month - day format so listings make more sense

cp rptlog /dump/backup.log.files/rptlog`date +%y%m%d`

Cheers,
Keith

Second thought, "+%Y%m%d" would be better

Keith

Kieth are you talking about making a cron script ?
Also what does the + do ? If this is in a Cron it will add a day or week ? Or will it add the current day?
I will be putting a cron to do this every week on friday if that helps.