topic Re: Crating file with date in Operating System - HP-UX

Crating file with date

jayachandran.g — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:11:36 GMT

Hi all

How to create a file with todays dat as a name of it.

20050531.txt

I have searched in the forum but i have not answer for this.

Re: Crating file with date

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:22:53 GMT

hi,
Look at the man page for date.
ex:
file=$(date +%Y%m%d)
>$file

Re: Crating file with date

jayachandran.g — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:29:41 GMT

Hi Leif

i was not noticed that +. sorry

Re: Crating file with date

Gopi Sekar — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:30:20 GMT

use like this:

file_name="`date +%Y%m%d`.txt"

## now do what you want in $file_name

Re: Crating file with date

Joaquin_13 — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:38:48 GMT

Hi,

you can just simply invoke this command when creating a new file using the filename format you prefer

$ cat > date +%Y%m%d.txt -- if this doesn't the other way around is to set an variable in your env. by simply invoking

$ export =`date +%Y%m%d`
$ cat > $.txt

hope this can help..