Help renaming a directory!

[jackdahi]

Ok so renaming a directory is easy in unix. But here is the difficult task:

Im using the tcsh shell to write a basic script that moves certain logs to a folder at a certain time. This folder's name needs to be the current date. Moving the files is simple, but automatically generating a directory with the current date has proven difficult.

Can anyone help me?

[tomdkat]

Try using the date command, like this:

$ mkdir test-`date +%F`-dir
$ dir -ld test*
drwxrwxr-x 2 tom tom 4096 Mar 3 14:26 test-2006-03-03-dir
$

Read the man page on the various formatting options and specify them after the "+" sign as appropriate. Be sure to keep the single quote marks (`), as I have in my example above, as they instruct the shell to run the command enclosed in them and substitute the output in place where the command appears.

Good luck!

Peace...

[jackdahi]

tomdkat you are the man...lol

Thanks for taking the time to help me with this. I will format it to my needs but I got the just of it. I'm glad to see that i can count on this forum and its members.

Thanks again!

[tomdkat]

Naw, I'm not "the man"... just trying to help out.

I've used the date command to do things like naming files based on a date/time stamp and it can work out very well when used right.

Good luck and let us know how it works out for you.

Peace...

[artov]

Originally Posted by jackdahi

Im using the tcsh shell to write a basic script that moves certain logs to a folder at a certain time.

On the tcsh shell: check http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Ok, it is about csh, but to my knowledge tcsh is mainly enhanced commandline
stuff (edition etc.). So: use bash or sh instead.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by artov

On the tcsh shell: check http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Ok, it is about csh, but to my knowledge tcsh is mainly enhanced commandline
stuff (edition etc.). So: use bash or sh instead.

I dunno, I've used csh, tcsh, bash, sh, and ksh and I don't see any problem with using csh. I do agree that one should also be proficient in sh (even more so than ksh or bash) in the interest of being functional across a broader spectrum of *nix systems.

In this case and for what he's wanting to do, (t)csh will work just fine.

Peace...