Adding a unique identifier in file name

Dear all,
In one of the scenario(n IDOCs to 1File),
IDOCs keep coming from SAP and at XI we are appending it in one file.
XI transmits this file on particular time of a day(say everyday at 6 PM) to the receiver system. It implies that it is a per day interface.
XI creates the file with the this convention: <DocName>>_<Date>.txt
Now a new requirement has come up to add a unique identifier to this filename for every transmission, Say for ex:
<UniqueIdentifier>_<DocName>_<Date>.txt
The receiver system wants this, UniqueIdentifier to be in sequence, say
0001_OrderData_20090224.txt
0002_OrderData_20090224.txt
Is it possible to achieve this in XI, Do we have any standard feature. or is there any workaround.
Kindly drop in your comments.
Thanks in advance,
Younus

Mohammed.
Your interface won't work like this. If this is the situation you want to archieve then you should use the IDOC.txt as a secondary input as well.
if you do an append on the file there is no way you can duplicate that.
else i'd suggest you create a CMD function which does a copy and append number to that. There is a function within SAP Xi to execute a CMD line function when done.
In this batch (or.sh) file you can copy the last file and append a number to that. Alllthough i'm not sure how dynamically that is.
greets

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