Creating File with Today's date

[gkavesh]

I've surfed & surfed & can't find something that helps me out on this one.
I'm creating a zip file but I need the file name to look like
FilenameMMDDYY.zip -
How do I append today's date onto the file name?

Thanks

gina

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Can't you just right-click the file and rename it that?

[gkavesh]

Ugh minor detail I forgot - actually I'm creating this file in a shell script that's running weekly which then is ftp'ing to another server.
I've got it all working except the naming piece since the person getting the data needs the files identified in such a way he knows which company is transmitting the data.
Thus I'm zipping 5 files into 1 to automatically ftp over.

So it's within a shell script that I need to do this vs manually right clicking (which does work but doesn't accomplish what I need automatically)

gina

[devils casper]

mv filename filename$(date +%m%d%y)

[gkavesh]

Bingo! Thank a lot - my guess' were sort of close but would never have gotten there.

- gina

[devils casper]

Glad to help you.
Do post back if you have any other query.

[senthil_linux]

Hi

filename like xxx_sep13_2007

gzip xxx_sep13_2007


Thanks and Regards

senthil k

[scm]

Hi

filename like xxx_sep13_2007

gzip xxx_sep13_2007

gzip xxx_$(date "+%b%d_%Y" | tr A-Z a-z)

date --help will give you a list of all possible formats you can print.