I ofter create files with a time/date stamp as the prefix and then a short description of the file after the timestamp.
For example:
nano 03-10-2025_03_20_AM-This_is_the_description_of_my_file.txt
I am looking for a way (maybe a bash alias or a bash function?) to automatically prefix a nano filename with a timestamp when using bash in linux.
The farthest I have gone with this is creating a bash alias that looks like this:
alias nanotime='$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S).txt'
Now, when is type ‘nanotime‘ in bash, it opens up nano editor and automatically appends “the current time“.txt as the file name.
I want more than just “the current time.txt” as my filename. I need a way to do something like “nanotime“-this_is_my_new_file.txt , So that I can write a description of my file that I am creating with nano after the timestamp in the filename.
Is there a way to easily do this?
