On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:24:26AM -0700, S t i n g r a y wrote: > Well i want to know if its possible to rename a file > to the current date ? > like if i want to move todays date to the file name ?
Say the file you want to rename is "t.txt" you could use: mv t.txt `date +%d-%m-%Y` That gives you the file "29-08-2006". If you wanted to keep the suffix you could use: mv t.txt `date +%d-%m-%Y`.txt See "man date" for the explaination of the %d, %m, and %Y terms. Steve -- Debian GNU/Linux System Administration http://www.debian-administration.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
