Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 09:58:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@serv.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix commands Message-ID: <199806141658.JAA24308@ralf.serv.net>
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drifter@stratos.net (drifter@stratos.net) writes:
| On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 09:04:59AM -0500, Dave Bender wrote:
| > One solution would be:
| >
| > $ date | awk '{print "mv yourfile $2.html"}' | sh
| > [...]
|
| How about:
|
| $ mv yourfile `date | awk '{print $2$3-$4.html}'`
|
| or alternatively:
|
| $ mv yourfile $(date | awk '{print $2$3-$4.html}')
| [...]
You know, the FreeBSD date command does support a strftime capability, so it
might be more straightforward to write
mv yourfile `date "+yourfile.%m"`
---Ken
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