[wplug] bash script for numbering filenames by date

Russ Schneider russ at sugapablo.com
Mon Jun 21 10:43:29 EDT 2004


On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Poyner, Brandon wrote:

> Not very pretty, I'd probably do this in perl, but this will prepend the
> file modification date to the file name.  Remove the echo to make it
> really do the job.
> 
> for i in * ; do date=`stat -c '%y' $i | awk -F ' ' '{print $1}'` ; echo
> mv $i $date'_'$i ; done

Thanks.  I believe that will do nicely. :)

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