david wrote:
A directory with files of unknown names.
I want to rename each seperate file with it's date/time thus:
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 105 2007-01-19 11:20 test
becomes
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 105 2007-01-19 11:20 200701191120
I've been messing with it for a few hours, and I'm sure it's simple but
I'm not getting there.
Hooray for Friday afternoon scripting fun!
This isn't pretty, but will probably work[*]. Except on files with spaces.
for file in `ls`; do
date=`ls -l --time-style=long-iso "$file" | awk '{ print "$6 $7" }'
newname=`date -d "$date" +%Y%m%d%H%M`
mv "$file" $newname
* Only partially tested. Your mileage liable to variance.
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