BASH function to rename file to last mondays date

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I'm trying to create a bash function that will allow me to rename a file name emails.txt to last monday's date

renem ()
{
        d=`date -d last-monday`
        mv ~/emails.txt ~/myemails/$d
}

but i en up wit this error any suggestion

mv: target `2014' is not a directory
2

The issue is you don't quote your variable.

renem ()
{
    d=$(date -d last-monday)
    mv ~/emails.txt ~/myemails/"$d"
}

I would suggest something more compact like:

renem ()
{
    d=$(date "+%Y%m%d" -d last-monday)
    mv ~/emails.txt ~/myemails/$d
}
3

Which date format do you need?

date -d last-monday will produce something like:

Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 PST 2014

You don't want to rename ~/emails.txt to Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 PST 2014 , don't you?

If you want it that way, then you need to quote the $d variable, e.g.

mv ~/emails.txt ~/myemails/"$d"
4

yes thats how i want it show

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this worked thanks alot.

got any good reading to help with learning functions?