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Dec 23, 2008 
Formatting the date output in bash is simple:
date + "%Y-%m-%d";
An example of assigning to a variable and using:
now=`date + "%Y-%m-%d"`;
cp /etc/hosts ~/hosts_${now};
For more information, see the manual.
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Dec 23, 2008 
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