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by rgooding

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I want to copy a file from the unix command line to a new name that has the date (and possibly time) as part of the name. For example:
cp abc.txt abc20030108.txt.

Could someone please tell me how to get the current date/time concatenated to the name of the file?

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by alveden

Follow the example below

cp abc.txt abc`date +%Y%m%d`.txt

Take note of the quotation used, is essential.

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