Constructing a file with date and time

Hi
I am a novice and have an existing script which creates a text file.
I need to enhance it so that it will now print a one-line report via “lp” as follows :

'On DD/MM/YYYY at HH:MM the following number of records were output : nn'

where nn is the number of records in my file.

I know I can get the value of nn via “wc –l”,
but do not know how to get the first part of the line with the date and time.

Presumably I should be creating a fileA,
and then ‘cat’ing fileA with a file with the contents
of the wc –l command,
but unfortunately do not know how to create fileA.

Any help would be most welcome !

You are ok with inserting the value of the number of records into the file, just repeat the same type of operation/function, but this time with suitable output from the date command:


Note that the %x pre-supposes your locale date format is d/m/y. If it isn't it is simple enough to construct the right format.

many thanks Simon : working great.
sorry for the delay in response
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