Rename file command to unix with timestamp

Question

Hi, I am using putty and trying to rename a file name with the current timestamp ... I used the following command to rename files and by date mv abc.log $ (date +% F) prod.txt

renames commands above but cannot rename with time, it gives an output like: 2014-05-12prodabc.log

And the following command is abc.log $ (date +% y) $ (date +% m) $ (date +% d) abcprod.log

gives an output like: 140512abc.log

Actually, my requirement is as follows.

rename abc.log to abc-current timestamp.log eg abc.log become abc-12-05-2014-17:31.log then create new file abc.log 

Please help, thank you all in advance.

Answer 1

you can use

 mv test.dat test_$(date +%d-%m-%Y).dat 

If you want to know how you can manage your exit, see the Manpages date ..

 man date 

Answer 2

Use this:

 mv abc.log $(date +%F-%H:%M).log && touch abc.log 

Here

+%F-%H:%M will give you the format, e.g. 2014-05-19-14:47 . If the renaming is successful, touch will create a new empty file.

Answer 3

It:

  str=abc; mv ${str}.log ${str}-$(date +%F'-'%T).log 

Answer 4

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Answer 5

If you use cPanel to create a cron job: be careful that you need the backslash for%. this works: cp log.txt log. date +"\%d\%m\%Y" .txt