Re: [SLUG] bash problem - renaming files with their time stamp

[Peter Hardy]

Peter Hardy wrote:

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

Er, that should be awk '{ print $6" "$7 }'

* Only partially tested. Your mileage liable to variance.

...told you so.

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Pete

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