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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to add a datetime stamp at a particular position in a filename? Post 302874715 by Aia on Saturday 16th of November 2013 12:38:43 PM
Old 11-16-2013
At some point a toggle must be switched for prefix or suffix.

Let's use a command line argument:
e.i stamp_it 0

Code:
for f in *.txt; do
    case ${1} in
    0)
    echo $(date "+%F").${f} ;;
    1)
    echo ${f}.$(date "+%F") ;;
    *)
    echo ${f} ;;
    esac
done

Why not to solve it as a boolean?

If "prefix" is not an argument at command line do "suffix". You get the idea.

Code:
for f in *.txt; do
    [[ ${1} = "prefix" ]] && echo $(date "+%F").${f} || echo ${f}.$(date "+%F")
done

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