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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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unix2dos(1)						      General Commands Manual						       unix2dos(1)

NAME

       unix2dos - UNIX to DOS text file format converter

SYNOPSYS

       unix2dos [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]

       Options:

       [-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents unix2dos, the program that converts text files in UNIX format to DOS format.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -h --help
	      Print online help.

       -k --keepdate
	      Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.

       -q --quiet
	      Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.

       -V --version
	      Prints version information.

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	      Sets conversion mode. Simulates unix2dos under SunOS.

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	      New  file  mode.	Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
	      used or you WILL lost your files.

EXAMPLES

       Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.

	      unix2dos

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.

	      unix2dos a.txt b.txt

	      unix2dos -o a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode.  Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.

	      unix2dos a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      unix2dos -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.

	      unix2dos -k a.txt

	      unix2dos -k -o a.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.

	      unix2dos -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.

	      unix2dos -k -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.

	      unix2dos a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

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       Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt.  Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.

	      unix2dos -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt

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BUGS

       The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode.  If you know why is that so, please tell me.

AUTHOR

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MISCELLANY

       Tested environment:

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