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March 7, 2017 17:27
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Crazy dirty script to prepend all filenames in a directory with ISO8601-formatted dates
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for f in *; | |
do | |
filename=$(basename "$f") | |
filenamespacereplace=${filename// /-} | |
filecreationdate=$(GetFileInfo -d "$f") | |
truncateddate=${filecreationdate::10} | |
dateslashreplace=${truncateddate////-} | |
truncatedyear=${dateslashreplace:6:9} | |
truncatedday=${dateslashreplace:3:2} | |
truncatedmonth=${dateslashreplace::2} | |
# build the correct date format | |
correcteddate=$truncatedyear | |
correcteddate+="-" | |
correcteddate+=$truncatedmonth | |
correcteddate+="-" | |
correcteddate+=$truncatedday | |
echo File name: $filename; | |
echo Creation date: $correcteddate | |
newfilename=$correcteddate | |
newfilename+="-" | |
newfilename+=$filenamespacereplace | |
echo New name: $newfilename | |
mv ./$filename $newfilename | |
echo Successfully converted | |
done; |
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