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Old 05-30-2002
Concat date
How do I concat a date to a filename

eg;
filename: jjjrtup

to become

jjjrtup29052002

mv jjjrtup jjjrtup ? date

what should ? be
# 2  
Old 05-30-2002
Check the man page for date for formatting, but the example you gace would be:
Code:
mv jjjrtup jjjrtup`date +%d%m%y`

Note that there are back-ticks up there, not single-quotes. Also, no space between jjjrtup and `date +%d%m%y`...
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Old 05-30-2002
Thanks !
Thanks for the quick reply !
 
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