Shell script to copy files from one location to another location and rename add the current date to every file

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I have a folder in my server which contains some files  These are automated that means everyday we get new files automatically which will overwrite the old ones  So want to take a back up for this data   How can i copy all these files in to a another folder by renaming the files with current date while copying   ex   i have a folder named folder1 which contains 4 files  path for this folder is home webapps project1 folder1   aaa csv bbb csv ccc csv ddd csv   now i want to copy all these four files in to a different folder named folder2  path for this folder is home webapps project1 folder2  while copying these files i want to rename each file and add the current date to the file  so my file names in folder2 should be     aaa091012 csv bbb091012 csv ccc091012 csv ddd091012 csv   I want to write a shell script for this  Please give me some idea or some sample scripts related to this

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In bash  provided you files names have no spaces   cd  home webapps project1 folder1 for f in   csv do     cp -v   f   home webapps project1 folder2    f  csv    date   m d y  csv done

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You can be used this step is very useful   for i in  ls -l folder1   grep -v total   awk   print            do    cd folder1    cp  i folder2  i  date   m d Y  done

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cp --archive home webapps project1 folder1  aaa bbb ccc ddd  csv home webapps project1 folder2 rename  s   csv     date   m d Y  csv    home webapps project1 folder2  aaa bbb ccc ddd  csv   Explanation    --archive ensures that the files are copied with the same ownership and permissions  foo bar baz  is expanded into foobar foobaz  rename is a commonly available program to do exactly this kind of substitution    PS  don t use ls for this

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There is a proper way to split the filename and the extension  Extract filename and extension in Bash  You can apply it like this   date   date    m d y   for FILE in folder1   csv do     bname   basename   FILE       extension    bname           filenamewoext    bname          newfilename    filenamewoext   date    extension      cp folder1   FILE  folder2   newfilename  done

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You could use a script like the below   You would just need to change the date options to match the format you wanted      bin bash  for i in  ls -l  directroy  do cp  i  newDirectory  i  date   m d Y  done

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path src   folder1 path dst   folder2 date   date    m d y   for file src in  path src    do   file dst   path dst   basename  file src         sed  s                  1 date  2       echo mv   file src    file dst  done

[bash] Shell script to copy files from one location to another location and rename add the current date to every file

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