Shell script to copy files from one location to another location and rename add the current date to every file

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

Answer 1

There is a proper way to split the filename and the extension: Extract filename and extension in Bash

You can apply it like this:

date=$(date +"%m%d%y")
for FILE in folder1/*.csv
do
    bname=$(basename "$FILE")
    extension="${bname##*.}"
    filenamewoext="${bname%.*}"
    newfilename="${filenamewoext}${date}.${extension}
    cp folder1/${FILE} folder2/${newfilename}
done