Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:19:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: courtney@whtz.com Cc: questions@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using date for file names Message-ID: <20000308171953.D2947@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <85256899.0062DDEE.00@mail.whtz.com>; from courtney@whtz.com on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:59:51PM -0500 References: <85256899.0062DDEE.00@mail.whtz.com>
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:59:51PM -0500, courtney@whtz.com wrote: > > > when I do mv original.txt `date +%m%d%y`.doc i get a file that is named > "date +%d%m%y.doc" > > any ideas?? I sure hope you're not using a shell which tries to interpret % characters as some form of escape char, or anything... Try using this: % mv original `date '+%m%d%y'`.doc Watch the use of single and backquotes. It is important to know that the string between `...` (the backquotes) is interpreted by the shell as a command. If the shell gives special meaning to % characters, you might end up with some unpleasant surprise :) -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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