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Date:      Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:40:36 +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:  <20000305174036.E899@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000305173446.B899@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 05:34:46PM %2B0000
References:  <85256899.005BCA3F.00@mail.whtz.com> <20000305173446.B899@parish>

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On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 05:34:46PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> 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
> 

...or,

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

in your case ;-)

> will do the trick
> 
> HTH
> 
> > thanks!
> > 
> > bern
> > 
> > Bernie Courtney
> > Z100 New York Engineering
> > mailto:courtney@whtz.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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