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Date:      Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:34:46 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        courtney@whtz.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: using date for file names
Message-ID:  <20000305173446.B899@parish>
In-Reply-To: <85256899.005BCA3F.00@mail.whtz.com>; from courtney@whtz.com on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:42:34AM -0500
References:  <85256899.005BCA3F.00@mail.whtz.com>

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On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:42:34AM -0500, courtney@whtz.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 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??
> 

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

will do the trick

HTH

> thanks!
> 
> bern
> 
> Bernie Courtney
> Z100 New York Engineering
> mailto:courtney@whtz.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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