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#1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 07:39 AM

I have a loop where I am moving files from dir A to dir B. I want the
filenames in B to be the same as A but with the date and time appended
to the end of the filename.

Any help on how to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Joe

#2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 07:39 AM

I figured this out using date and cut but don;t know how to omit
non-files (directories) in my "mv" loop.

#3 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 07:39 AM

Joe wrote:
> I figured this out using date and cut but don;t know how to omit
> non-files (directories) in my "mv" loop

find . -type f

if you don't want recursive directory searches, look into the -prune
option of find

#4 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 07:39 AM

Joe wrote:
> I figured this out using date and cut but don;t know how to omit
> non-files (directories) in my "mv" loop.

Use 'find . -type f ...' to get a file list

Regards,

Frank

#5 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 07:40 AM

I'd be interested in seeing your how you solved it with the date and
cut command? What date format were you looking for?
We all know there are a thousand ways to do the same thing without
there being a definite right way, but here is what I came up with (I
did it from the command line, but you could easily make a script out of
it):

$ cd /path/to/source/files
$ d=`date +%Y%m%d`
$ for i in `find . -type f`
>do
>mv $i /file/to/new/files/$i.$d
>done
$

T.

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