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Hi,

I am taking an output and redirecting it to a file name

and this is a hourly or daily process , in this case, i want my file output as

some logoutput_date_time.txt

how can i form the file name like this

for eg

i am running this command now, so

tail -f /data/logs/xxx/yyy.txt >>logoutput_11072005_1125.txt

what shd i do to get the file name like this,

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Originally Posted by vasikaran

Hi,

I am taking an output and redirecting it to a file name

and this is a hourly or daily process , in this case, i want my file output as

some logoutput_date_time.txt

how can i form the file name like this

for eg

i am running this command now, so

tail -f /data/logs/xxx/yyy.txt >>logoutput_11072005_1125.txt

what shd i do to get the file name like this,

Code:

tail -f /data/logs/xxx/yyy.txt >>logoutput_$(date +%d%M%Y_%H%M).txt

Check out man date for other options.

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