Appending date to filenames

[arka]

Hi All,
I have a requirement like this, I have to save log files appended with current date and time.I did "logger.sh > log`date +%T%D`" it is saying no such file or directory.I omitted %D then it works.But I need both.One more thing if I want to put a separator between time and date what to do.For example

log09:15:20$09/09/11

Thanks,
Arka

[sdousley]

I can see the issue here. The date %D returns / formatted date. e.g. MM/DD/YY

This will obviously try saving to a file named YY in the folder called "%TMM/DD"

to get around this, you will likely need to use a different date format.

As for formatting it, you can literally put whatever formatting you want in the +string.

e.g. to get what you want, but with - instead of / in the date:

logger.sh > log-`date +%T$%m-%d-%y`