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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rename multiple file names in a directory Post 302524248 by methyl on Sunday 22nd of May 2011 04:14:58 PM
Old 05-22-2011
To match your requirement, the 'date' command should be:
Code:
date +'%d%m%Y%H%M%S'

The %Y gives a 4-digit year.

Statements like "which is not working" tell us nothing. What went wrong?

Maybe your script should be something like:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
DDMMYYYYHHMMSS=`date +'%d%m%Y%H%M%S'` # Evaluate the date once only
cd /vol/best/srcfiles
for filename in "Payor" "customer" "vendor" Employee"
do
       if [ -f "${filename} ]
       then
              mv "${filename}" "${filename}.${DDMMYYYYHHMMSS}"
       fi
done


Btw. The date format YYYYMMDD etc. is much better than DDMMYYYY etc. in filenames because the files will come out in chronogical order in a default "ls" directory list.

Last edited by methyl; 05-22-2011 at 05:50 PM..
 

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DateTime::setISODate - Sets the ISO date

       Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
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+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | Changed the return value on success from NULL to | | | DateTime. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
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