Here is the list of supported operators that you can use to name the directories with current day, month, time, year, day of week, day of the month, time zone etc. To create a directory with name of current month (i.e October), run: $ mkdir '$(date +%B)' The above command will create a directory named 'Saturday' i.e today's name.Ĭreate directory with name of current day

What if you want to name the directories with actual name of the current day/month like Sunday, October etc? It's simple! $ mkdir '$(date +%A)' In all of the above examples, we created the directories with numbers on their names. To name directory with current minutes, use uppercase M: $ mkdir '$(date +%M)' For example, the following command will create a directory and name it with current second. We can even create directories with current minutes and seconds in the name. This command will create a folder and name it with current time in hh:mm:ss format. How about directories name with current time? It is also possible. This command will name the directories with the last two digits of current year i.e 20. Similarly, you can create directories with current month-only in the name: $ mkdir '$(date +%m)' This command will only create the directory with current day in the name. If you want only day of the current date, use: $ mkdir '$(date +%d)' To create files, just replace mkdir with touch command. ) and ls will list them in date order, run: $ mkdir $(date -I)Īll of the above three commands will produce the same result. To create a file with custom name: $ touch -$(date +'%d-%m-%Y') Create Directories Of Files With ISO Format Create directories or files with custom name with current date

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