[Wolves] copy of several files from source folder to target folder with timestamp appended to them

[Suntish Narain]

Thanks both!

I will play with it a bit more based on your recommendations and let you
know how I get on... thanks!

Suntish
On 21 Nov 2013 17:08, "Chris Ellis" <chris at intrbiz.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:54 PM, David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 21 Nov 2013, at 16:30, Suntish Narain <suntish at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I have a situation where I have several files, say file1.txt,
>> file2.txt, file3.txt and file4.txt (but the number of files can change!)
>> that I want to move from the source folder to a target folder. The only
>> difference is that I want the files in the target folder to have todays'
>> date appended to it, so would be file1_20131121.txt, file2_20131121.txt..,
>> file4_20131121.txt
>> >
>> > I thought
>> > cp /home/user/Documents/source/file*
>> /home/user/Documents/target/file*_$(date +%Y%m%d).txt would work but no..
>> it says directory does not exist..
>> >
>> > but
>> > mv /home/user/Documents/source/file1.txt
>> /home/user/Documents/target/file1_$(date +%Y%m%d).txt works
>>
>>
>> I think you have to do it something like :
>>
>> for file in /path/to/source/file*
>> do
>>         shortFileName=$(basename $file .txt)
>>         mv $file /path/to/somewhere/else/$shortFileName_$(date +%F).txt
>> done
>>
>> Note, this won't work if you have any spaces in your file names (it'll
>> fail miserably), but you indicate that you're only interested in file1.txt,
>> file2.txt etc which is ok.
>>
>>
>> David.
>>
>
> Or something like:
>
> find ./src/ -type f | while read f; do
>     cp "$f" "./dst/$(basename $f .txt)_$(date +%F).txt"
> done
>
> My tip, would be don't script with a 'mv' until you know your script works!
>
> Chris
>
>
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