Adding a date as a column to a file

[technossomy]

I want to add a date to a record which is added to a file that gets its data from an external source. An explanation:

1. Getting external data: curl http://www.download.com/scores.txt

2. Getting the required record: | grep myteam

3. Appending to file: >> myscores.txt

The question is not only to append the scores, but to add a column with the current date and time. So I need to add something like "$( date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S )" as the first column to scores.txt. How is this done?

Thanks in advance

[secondmouse]

suppose the output of step 2 is /tmp/tmp_line, then the following command should do the job for you:
( date | tr '\012' '\t' ; cat /tmp/tmp_line )>>myscores.txt
'\t' is the separator between date and the score data, replace it with whatever you want. Add formatting string after date if you need to.

[technossomy]

Thanks, that worked after some more tweaking.