[ubuntu-za] Copy log file with date-time in name

[Greg Raubenheimer]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Nico Michael(PtaISP)
<nick.michael at ptaisp.co.za> wrote:
> Hi There
>
> I need to write a simple shell script to copy a file from one folder to
> another and add the dateand time in the targetfile name
>
> cp /usr/mylogs/mylogfile.log /usr/mylogs/history/mylogfile_2010-03-11.log
>
> Please advise
> regards
>
> Nico

Hi Nico

You can use:
cp /usr/mylogs/mylogfile.log /usr/mylogs/history/mylogfile_`date
+"%Y-%m-%d"`.log

man date will give you all the formats you can use.

Greg