Re: [newbie] PING John Richard Smith

[John Richard Smith]

Todd Slater wrote:

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

 

Good I will do that, I'm tied up currently , wife bought new 80gig 
harddrive, under threat of horrible things if I don't get her OS's on it 
by nightfall, but I'm coming back to this later.

John

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