Re: how to use current date as file extension?

[Jan]

Jianping Zhu wrote:

I have redhat 7.3, i want to use currnt date as file extension by using
following command.
mv myfile myfile.${`date`}
but it does not work.
how to do that? Thanks

Like this:

mv myfile "myfile.$(date)"

- $() with round brackets is the one to use. However, that leaves you with a filename with embedded spaces!

/jan




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