Re: How to create a formatted timestamp and use it in filename in a script?
From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 01/29/05
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:47:20 -0500
In article <cteiro$an4$03$1@news.t-online.com>,
ulf2m@email.com (Ulf Meinhardt) wrote:
> I want to
> 1.) get the current timestamp (including milliseconds !)
> 2.) format it according to usual options and finally
> 3.) create a filename from it
>
> All together it should be similar to:
>
> myts=getTimestamp(dd.MM.yyyy_HH:mm:ss:ms)
> myfilename=aaa_{$ts}.log
>
> How do I do this in unix shell script ?
man date
and notice the +<format> option.
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