I’m looking for a way to copy the newest .gz
files I have in Dir A
to Dir B
, and append the date to that files.
Example:
Dir A
- cinema.gz
- radio.gz
- cars.txt
- camera.gz
Dir B
- cinema.gz.20200310
- radio.gz.20200310
Using following command I can copy the newest .gz
files to dirb
cp $(ls -1t /dira *gz | head -2) "dirb"
However I don’t find a way to change append the date to the filename.
I was trying something like this:
cp $(ls -1t /dira *gz | head -2) "dirb/*.$(date +%F_%R)"
But don’t works at all.
Your help please 🙂
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Answer
for TO_MOVE in `ls -t *.gz | head -n2`; do cp $TO_MOVE dirb/; mv dirb/$TO_MOVE dirb/$TO_MOVE.`date +%Y%m%d`; done