Question

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 into another folder by renaming the files with current date while copying.

ex : I have home/webapps/project1/folder1 folder which contains 4 files:

1. aaa.csv
2. bbb.csv
3. ccc.csv
4. ddd.csv

Now, I want to copy all these four files in to a different location, like 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:

1. aaa091012.csv
2. bbb091012.csv
3. ccc091012.csv
4. ddd091012.csv

I want to write a shell script for this. Please give me some idea or some sample scripts related to this.

Answer 1

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