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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 13:11:56 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Design at Carolina Marketing <design@carolinamarketing.com>
Cc:        faq@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unix commands
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612131025.477C-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199806121758.LAA18763@carolmar.bluehill.com>

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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Design at Carolina Marketing wrote:

>Hello,
>
>    I am new to Unix and I am looking for a command that will allow me to
>rename(mv) a file according to what month it is.  I thought i remember
>reading something like [mv $.html], but i can't find it now.  This is to
>rename a generated page produced by a cron file.

You would have to write a script to do this. The script would use a
combination of 'mv' 'cp' and 'date'.

It should be fairly trivial to write this script.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/
			|	206-633-5994


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