My first program. It basically reads data and creates a file based upon it. This program runs daily. My problem is in naming thiese files, I need to append a "date identifier" ie "myfile.date" Here's the trick. The program may be run on week/month old data, at times. So, I thought of two ways to solve this: 

1. parse "timestamp" for what I need. CON: don't know if it will work or how. What if file is "touched"?

2. I could grab it from tha path ie /export/home/mars-stats/device/config/082500/blah/blah/blah

CON: what if path changes?
Unfortunately, there's nothing contained in the data file name or the data itself that is relevant. Any suggestions on how to approach this?

In reply to Parsing File Timestamp? by Limo

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