[NTLUG:Discuss] Using current date in a script

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 23:07, Minh Duong wrote:
> Does anybody know how to use the current date when
> writing a shell script?  What I am trying to do is
> capture some information and save it as a file with
> the filename as the date.  For example:
> 
> cat file >> 20030205.txt
> 
> The problem is I don't know how I can pass the date in
> that form as text without resorting to using something
> like java.
> 
> Minh
> 

Try this:

filename=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
cat file >> "$filename".txt

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Alton Pouncey
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