rename file based on file's timestamp

[Pietro Cerutti]

Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:45:08 schrieb andrew clarke:
>> Now I want to rename these so the new filenames are based on the file's
>> timestamp, like so:
>>
>> -rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Jul 28  2006 2006-07-28.mp3
>> -rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Jul 31  2006 2006-07-31.mp3
>> -rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Aug  1  2006 2006-08-01.mp3
>> -rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Aug  2  2006 2006-08-02.mp3
>> -rw-r--r--  1 ozzmosis  ozzmosis  115201253 Aug  3  2006 2006-08-03.mp3
>>
>> I can write some Python code to do this, but maybe there is another way,
>> perhaps using a shell script.  Any thoughts?
> 
> Simple bash script to do this (untested):
> 
> for i in $*
> do
> 	mv $i `stat -f %Sm -t %Y-%m-%d`.mp3
> done

just pay attention at the situation when two files have the same timestamp..

> 
> HTH!
> 


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