Get today’s date and use it in filename
You can format the output using the '+FORMAT' parameter, e.g.
touch "log$(date +'%m%d%y')"
See the manpage for what sequences you can use in FORMAT.
Running the command
echo "myfilename-"`date +"%d-%m-%Y"`
gives this as the output:
myfilename-21-02-2014
One of the possible soultions:
date +log%y%m%d | xargs touch
creates log111017