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  • March 8, 2000 at 12:52 pm #2082330

    Sco Open Server file rename

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    by tstad · about 23 years ago

    In previos versions of Sco unix you could rename a file to include today’s date as part of the file name. The command used to be: cp filename date ‘+%m%dname’ and the result would be 0309name. Does anyone know how this command has changed, or howI can “datestamp” a file as part of the file name. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.

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    • March 9, 2000 at 12:58 pm #3898359

      Sco Open Server file rename

      by jeremyc · about 23 years ago

      In reply to Sco Open Server file rename

      Try this (I dont’ have a SCO machine to test on, but it should work):

      cp filename filename`date |sed -e “s/ /_/g”`

      Pay attention to the syntax above – the “single quotes” are backticks.

      This will get you this:
      “filename” gets copied to “filenameThu_Mar__9_18:51:04_MST_2000”

    • March 13, 2000 at 5:36 am #3898224

      Sco Open Server file rename

      by wcf · about 23 years ago

      In reply to Sco Open Server file rename

      You are slightly ticked-off for SCO OS5.
      The following suntax works.
      cp filename `date +%m%d`filename
      where ` is a backtic
      But note that this actually creates a COPY of the file and if what you really want is to RENAME the file as you state, use

      mv filename `date +%m%d`filename
      The main thing here is that you enclose the COMMAND in backticks so that the shell executes it and replaces the COMMAND with its output

    • September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3739697

      Sco Open Server file rename

      by tstad · about 22 years, 6 months ago

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