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Date:      Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:42:34 -0500
From:      courtney@whtz.com
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   using date for file names
Message-ID:  <85256899.005BCA3F.00@mail.whtz.com>

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hey everyone-

I am looking to rename a file on a nightly basis with the current date
(i.e. original.txt will become 030500.doc at midnight tonight) and so
on...what command do I have to use in my shell script to get this working??

thanks!

bern

Bernie Courtney
Z100 New York Engineering
mailto:courtney@whtz.com




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