topic Re: Date formatiing in Operating System - HP-UX

Date formatiing

Ali Imran Abbas — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:17:44 GMT

I want to print date in the formate mm/dd/yy. Is that possible with hpux. Actually I get a file every day on my server and the next day, this file is overwritten by the new file with the same name. I wanna keep the old files. I wanna rename each file by appending the date suffix to it. Can any body help me in that. please

Re: Date formatiing

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:24:38 GMT

Hi:

See the manpages for 'date':

# date +%m/%d/%y

# mv myfile myfile.$(date +%m%d%y)

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Date formatiing

Dennis Handly — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:20:47 GMT

>I want to print date in the formate mm/dd/yy.

(These are not the droids you are looking for. :-)
If you want this to sort right, you should use yy/mm/dd.
Or yyyy/mm/dd: date +%Y/%m/%d