Current Date to Filename in Bash Shell

 To assign current date to file name use month,date,time format like 

 date +%m%d%y and if You want to assign the date value to a variable follow   

 the date syntax format

time=$(date +%m%d%y)

or

time=`date +%m%d%y`

Some sample Examples are given below

#!/bin/bash

time=$(date +%m%d%y)

echo “Backup file of $time”

#!/bin/bash

time=$(date +%m%d%y)

musqldumb -u root -ppassword databasename > database_$time.sql

#!/bin/bash

time=$(date +%m%d%y)

mv /var/www/filename /home/sreeraju/

cd /home/sreeraju/

tar -cvf backup_$time.tar filename