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Old 03-02-2007
appending timestamp to a file
hi freinds,

i need to append timestamp to a file name to make it unique...
do we have any command in unix to do

please help Smilie
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Old 03-02-2007
Code:
timestamp=$( date +%d%m%y%H%M%S )
mv filenm filename"$timestamp"

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Old 03-02-2007
to make it unique
one more

%s seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC' (a GNU extension)

Code:
date '+%s'

 
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