How To Make A File Name From Output Date

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Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:20 am - How To Make A File Name From Output Date

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ok, lets say you want to create a file using the the date format for the filename

for example a file that looks like this:

12345678.txt

well, if this is what you want to do, follow the steps provided here by Webune Support Team.

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you use this command to create a file from the date:

echo "Webune Web Hosting" > `date +%m%d%Y`.txt

done

hope that works

if you wanted to display the date into one whole string you can use this command

if you wanted to display the date into one whole string you can use this command:

date +%m%d%Y

it will display this:

01072008

in my case right now its Jan 07 2008 so it displays 01072008 this is how i break it down:

01 = (month)
07 = (day)
2008 =(year)

i think this is similar to php time() function

author: Webune Support

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Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:24 am - Re: How To Make A File Name From Output Date

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       FORMAT controls the output.  The only valid option for the second form  specifies  Coordinated
       Universal Time.  Interpreted sequences are:

       %%     a literal %

       %a     localeâs abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)

       %A     localeâs full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)

       %b     localeâs abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)

       %B     localeâs full month name (e.g., January)

       %c     localeâs date and time (e.g., Thu Mar  3 23:05:25 2005)

       %C     century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21)

       %d     day of month (e.g, 01)

       %D     date; same as %m/%d/%y

       %e     day of month, space padded; same as %_d

       %F     full date; same as %Y-%m-%d

       %g     last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)

       %G     year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V

       %h     same as %b

       %H     hour (00..23)

       %I     hour (01..12)

       %j     day of year (001..366)

       %k     hour ( 0..23)

       %l     hour ( 1..12)

       %m     month (01..12)

       %M     minute (00..59)

       %n     a newline

       %N     nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)

       %p     localeâs equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known

       %P     like %p, but lower case

       %r     localeâs 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)

       %R     24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M

       %s     seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

       %S     second (00..60)

       %t     a tab

       %T     time; same as %H:%M:%S

       %u     day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday

       %U     week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
      %V     ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)

       %w     day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday

       %W     week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)

       %x     localeâs date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)

       %X     localeâs time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)

       %y     last two digits of year (00..99)

       %Y     year

       %z     +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)

       %:z    +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00)

       %::z   +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)

       %:::z  numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30)

       %Z     alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

       By  default,  date  pads  numeric fields with zeroes.  The following optional flags may follow
       â%â:

              - (hyphen) do not pad the field _ (underscore) pad with spaces 0 (zero) pad with  zeros
              ^ use upper case if possible # use opposite case if possible

       After any flags comes an optional field width, as a decimal number; then an optional modifier,
       which is either E to use the localeâs alternate representations if available, or O to use  the
       localeâs alternate numeric symbols if available.

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