Re: Start vim with a datestamped filename?

On 2017-03-12 13:56, George Skuse wrote:
> I'd like to have the filename dynamically datestamped
> (yyyyMMdd_hhmmss), ie: filename-20170312_165737.txt
>
> Does anyone know how this could be accomplished as part of the
> invocation using vim commands? This needs to be crossplatform and
> not rely on OS-provided functionality.

With *nix-specific, it's easy:

vim filename-$(date +'%Y%m%d_%H%M%S').txt

However that doesn't work so well on Windows (at least those that
don't have bash & date). For Vim-specific, you could do

vim -c "exec strftime('e filename-%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.txt')"

which Works For Me™ on Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows where I did a
quick test.

-tim



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