Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 09:04:59 -0500 From: Dave Bender <bendede@startribune.com> To: Design at Carolina Marketing <design@carolinamarketing.com> Cc: "faq@FreeBSD.ORG" <faq@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Unix commands Message-ID: <01BD96B4.12894E70@MANNY>
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One solution would be:
$ date | awk '{print "mv yourfile $2.html"}' | sh
date returns the date and pipes it to awk, which prints your command, sticking in field 2 ($2), which is the month. Then the whole thing gets fed to a shell, which executes it.
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From: Jason C. Wells
Sent: Friday, June 12, 1998 8:11 AM
To: Design at Carolina Marketing
Cc: faq@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Unix commands
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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