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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming multiple files Post 302461636 by danmero on Monday 11th of October 2010 10:35:34 PM
Old 10-11-2010
bash code:
  1. #!/bin/bash
  2. newdate=00-00-0000
  3. for file in *[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*
  4. do
  5.         echo mv $file ${file%[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].*}$newdate${file#*[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]}
  6. done
 

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