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From: a <andrew@soc.lg.gov.ua>
To: courtney@whtz.com
Cc: mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: using date for file names
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try this:

mv original.txt "`date +%d%m%y`.doc"


On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 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??
> 
> Bern
> 
> > % mv original.txt `date +%d%m%y`.doc
> >
> 
> ...or,
> 
> % mv original.txt `date +%m%d%y`.doc
> 
> in your case ;-)
> 
> 
> 
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