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Originally Posted by Don Cragun

Not quite. The first time through this loop with the sample data specified by the OP would try to move /Data/Data/abc.csv to /archive/Data/abc_timestamp.csv

My bad, I didn't test the script. Yes, that's right, Don Cragun. Thanks for pointing it out, it would indeed consider /Data/Data/abc.csv.

Below is what I had in mind and the previous untested script does otherwise:

Code:

dt=$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)
for file in /Data/*.csv
do
    file_ext=${file##*/}
    filename=${file_ext%.*}
    mv $file /archive/${filename}_${dt}.csv
done

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