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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming of multiple files with current date Post 302344903 by rjanardhan83 on Tuesday 18th of August 2009 02:15:19 AM
Old 08-18-2009
Yes...ddmmyyyy will be old date. I need to replace ddmmyyyy with current date for all the files.

Quote:
Originally Posted by anchal_khare
Are ddmmyyy in the files having other dates?
if yes, Do you mean to want the current date in place of "ddmmyyyy" ??
 

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conjunct

CONJUNCT(1)						      General Commands Manual						       CONJUNCT(1)

NAME

       conjunct - find dates of equinox or new or full moon

SYNOPSIS

       conjunct [options]

DESCRIPTION

       conjunct  searches  for	one of these events: spring equinox (default), summer solstice, autumn equinox, winter solstice, new moon, or full
       moon.

OPTIONS

       -s, --start date
	      Set starting date (default is current date).  The date may be either a Julian day number (e.g. 2454180.0 for noon, 2007 March 20) or
	      an ISO 8601 date (e.g. 2007-03-20).

       -e, --end date
	      Set ending date (default is one year from now).

       -V, --vernal, --spring
	      Search for spring equinox (default).

       -S, --summer
	      Search for summer solstice.

       -A, --autumn, --fall
	      Search for autumn equinox.

       -W, --winter
	      Search for winter solstice.

       -N, --newmoon
	      Search for new moon.

       -F, --fullmoon
	      Search for full moon.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

SEE ALSO

       aa(1).

AUTHOR

       conjunct was written by Stephen L. Moshier <steve@moshier.net>.

       This manual page was written by James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  August 24, 2006						       CONJUNCT(1)
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