Hi John, On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:20:26AM +0000, John Richard Smith wrote: > Todd Slater wrote: > > >The last script I sent was garbage. This is much cleaner and more > >efficient. > > > >As it currently stands, calling the script with "-n yourname" names > >pictures "yourname-001.jpg, yourname-002.jpg" etc. > > > >Calling it with "-d" names pictures "YYYY-MM-DD-001.jpg" etc. > > > >Calling it with "-n yourname -d" names pictures "yournameYYMMDD-001.jpg" > >etc. > > > >(When naming pictures by date, I like to have year as YYYY, but I can > >see how you wouldn't want that if tacking it on to some other text > >description.) > > > >Todd > > > > > Thanks Todd, > > In Europe we numerise dates in the fashion DDMMYY, or DDMMYYYY, but for > obvious reasons we prefer to keep it short in this case. So todays date > is 010903 > > Can I switch things around in your script ?
You sure can. Look for the lines where the pictures are renamed (they start with "mv $image . . ." and just change the order of date variables to $day$month$year. Normally in the US we would write MMDDYYYY. I prefer YYYYMMDD for easily finding and listing pictures on the computer, but of course you have the choice of format. Todd
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