How to copy file with timestamp in file name?

UNIX for Beginners Q & A
1

Hi Friends

I was wondering how should I copy a file as script where it take a file from location A and copies to location B and puts timestamp in location B within file name?

/home/myfile.dat
copy to..
/tmp/myfile.20191002.dat

Thank you!

2

What have you tried?

4

No attempts?
Certainly an answer could be found elsewhere.

today=`date +%C%y%m%d`
cp /home/myfile.dat /tmp/myfile.$today.dat