This is an example shell script which creates a file with datetime as filename.
eureka.sh
#!/bin/bash echo "Eureka!" > eureka.$(date '+%Y-%m-%d').txt
The file is created.
Done =)
Reference: StackOverflow – linux redirector to log filename with $date variable
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