Linux Rename file with only time/date stamp

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Tony picture Tony · May 17, 2012 · Viewed 12.5k times · Source

I have a single file which I want to rename mv to year_month_day_h:m:s - whats the best way to do that?

I've tried the following but it doesn't dynamically add the correct stamp (original file actually has a backslash in the name):

mv getnw/myfilename.txt "%Y%m%d%H%M%S".txt mv getnw/myfilename.txt "%Y-%m%d%H%M%S".txt mv getnw/myfilename.txt %Y-%m%d%H%M%S.txt mv getnw/myfilename.txt "'date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S'.txt"

Answer

dsomnus picture dsomnus · May 17, 2012 
mv myfile.txt `date +%Y_%m_%d_%H:%M:%S`.txt

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