Re: date stuff

Subject: Re: date stuff
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 17:10:21 AKDT

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> I'm trying to create a file that includes the date the file was
> created as part of the filename. Any suggestions?

How are you creating the file (i.e., in a script, from the shell, etc.)? If
you just need to do something from bash, something like:

  touch foo-`date +%Y%m%d`.log

would do. In Perl, see 'perldoc -f localtime', and so on. . .

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