I need to create a file through a c-shell script which contains only the date and time that the file was created. Does anyone know a simple way to do this?
Thank you,
Paula
If you were looking to place the date and time into an empty file then date '+%m%d%y %H%M%S' > /tmp/yournewfile will work in any shell.
Changing %m%d%y to %m/%d/%y gives 01/04/02 instead of 010402
Can anyone help me with creating a file from a shell script with the date in its name eg :
'log-2002-01-28.log'
Thanks in advance
Nic
To create a file named ... 'log-2002-01-28.log'
cat somefile > "log-`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`.log"
Cheers mate,
Ill have a play with that and see if i can get it to work:)
This will simply create a file.
#!/bin/sh
DATE="`date +%m``date +%d``date +%y`.log"
touch $DATE
boat73,
I tried pasting your code exactly, but it didn't work for me.
I tried more ways, with no luck.
Do u, or some1 else knows of a way it will work for me? I also prefer it in tcsh, if posible.
thanks.
This should do the trick.
#!/bin/csh
set filename="`date +%m%d%y`.out"
echo "$filename"