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Old 04-09-2010
How to append time to folder
Hi i just want to create a folder with current time.

For example.

foldername_09042010 How do i modify mkdir or write script to do this?
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Old 04-09-2010
Code:
#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter the folsder name                                          : " folder

day=`date +'%d%m%Y'`
folder1="$folder"_"$day"
echo $folder1
mkdir $folder1

 
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