topic adding timestamp to filename in Operating System - HP-UX

adding timestamp to filename

so.nimda — Mon, 08 May 2006 21:58:49 GMT

hi,

how do i add a timestamp to a filename?

e.g. i want to do a copy (backup) of a certain file and would like to concatenate a timestamp to it

thanks in advance !

:)

Re: adding timestamp to filename

Rajeev Shukla — Mon, 08 May 2006 22:05:55 GMT

You can do this by touch command
touch -t < time> filename
format of time is [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]
Do a man on touch to find more about it.
Here is a example to change the time stamp of a file called root to May 5 2005

touch -t 200505051000 root

Cheers
Rajeev

Re: adding timestamp to filename

Warren_9 — Mon, 08 May 2006 22:19:14 GMT

hi,

you could put the date command at the end

# cp -p source source.`date +%Y%d%m`

and it will have a file source.YYYYMMDD ...

man date for detail formatting.

GOOD LUCK!!

Re: adding timestamp to filename

so.nimda — Mon, 08 May 2006 22:24:38 GMT

hi Rejeev & Warren,

thanks for the tip... :)

will have a go at it...

cheers !!

Re: adding timestamp to filename

so.nimda — Mon, 08 May 2006 22:28:09 GMT

problem solved