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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming of multiple files with current date Post 302344247 by kshji on Saturday 15th of August 2009 11:35:21 AM
Old 08-15-2009
Using ksh something like
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
today=$(printf "%(%d%m%Y)T" now)

echo "$today"
# fix filegeneration if needed. My example has done in main directory and 
# those 17 directories are subdirectories
for f in */abc_???_???_????????.txt
do
       # parse line using delimeter _ and .
        echo "$f" | IFS="_." read part1 part2 part3 partdate end str
        partdate="$today"   # newdate value
        newname="${part1}_${part2}_${part3}_${partdate}.${end}"
        [ -f "$newname" ] && echo "$newname already exist" >&2 && continue
        # remove echo after you have tested
        echo mv "$f" "$newname"
done

 

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IntlDateFormatter::isLenient - Get the lenient used for the IntlDateFormatter

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public bool IntlDateFormatter::isLenient (void ) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style bool datefmt_is_lenient (IntlDateFormatter $fmt) Check if the parser is strict or lenient in interpreting inputs that do not match the pattern exactly. PARAMETERS
o $fmt - The formatter resource. RETURN VALUES
TRUE if parser is lenient, FALSE if parser is strict. By default the parser is lenient. EXAMPLES
Example #1 datefmt_is_lenient(3) example <?php $fmt = datefmt_create( 'en_US', IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'America/Los_Angeles', IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN, 'dd/mm/yyyy' ); echo 'lenient of the formatter is : '; if ($fmt->isLenient()) { echo 'TRUE'; } else { echo 'FALSE'; } datefmt_parse($fmt, '35/13/1971'); echo " Trying to do parse('35/13/1971'). Result is : " . datefmt_parse($fmt, '35/13/1971'); if (intl_get_error_code() != 0) { echo " Error_msg is : " . intl_get_error_message(); echo " Error_code is : " . intl_get_error_code(); } datefmt_set_lenient($fmt,false); echo 'Now lenient of the formatter is : '; if ($fmt->isLenient()) { echo 'TRUE'; } else { echo 'FALSE'; } datefmt_parse($fmt, '35/13/1971'); echo " Trying to do parse('35/13/1971').Result is : " . datefmt_parse($fmt, '35/13/1971'); if (intl_get_error_code() != 0) { echo " Error_msg is : " . intl_get_error_message(); echo " Error_code is : " . intl_get_error_code(); } ?> Example #2 OO example <?php $fmt = new IntlDateFormatter( 'en_US', IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'America/Los_Angeles', IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN, "dd/mm/yyyy" ); echo "lenient of the formatter is : "; if ($fmt->isLenient()) { echo 'TRUE'; } else { echo 'FALSE'; } $fmt->parse('35/13/1971'); echo " Trying to do parse('35/13/1971'). Result is : " . $fmt->parse('35/13/1971'); if (intl_get_error_code() != 0){ echo " Error_msg is : " . intl_get_error_message(); echo " Error_code is : " . intl_get_error_code(); } $fmt->setLenient(FALSE); echo 'Now lenient of the formatter is : '; if ($fmt->isLenient()) { echo 'TRUE'; } else { echo 'FALSE'; } $fmt->parse('35/13/1971'); echo " Trying to do parse('35/13/1971'). Result is : " . $fmt->parse('35/13/1971'); if (intl_get_error_code() != 0) { echo " Error_msg is : " . intl_get_error_message(); echo " Error_code is : " . intl_get_error_code(); } ?> The above example will output: lenient of the formatter is : TRUE Trying to do parse('35/13/1971'). Result is : -2147483 Now lenient of the formatter is : FALSE Trying to do parse('35/13/1971'). Result is : Error_msg is : Date parsing failed: U_PARSE_ERROR Error_code is : 9 SEE ALSO
datefmt_set_lenient(3), datefmt_create(3). PHP Documentation Group DATEFMT_IS_LENIENT(3)
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