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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Bulk changing of file names using Terminal in OS X Post 302963441 by ademanuele on Wednesday 30th of December 2015 12:47:21 PM
Old 12-30-2015
Yes, your example is what I am trying to achieve, e.g. changing photo001.jpg, photo002.jpg, photo003.jpg etc and change the name to picture001.jpg, picture002.jpg, picture003.jpg (this is just an example)
 

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DIRECTORYITERATOR.GETCTIME(3)						 1					     DIRECTORYITERATOR.GETCTIME(3)

DirectoryIterator::getCTime - Get inode change time of the current DirectoryIterator item

SYNOPSIS
public int DirectoryIterator::getCTime (void ) DESCRIPTION
Get the inode change time for the current DirectoryIterator item. PARAMETERS
This function has no parameters. RETURN VALUES
Returns the last change time of the file, as a Unix timestamp. EXAMPLES
Example #1 DirectoryIterator.getCTime(3) example This example displays the file name and last change time of the files in the directory containing the script. <?php $iterator = new DirectoryIterator(dirname(__FILE__)); foreach ($iterator as $fileinfo) { if ($fileinfo->isFile()) { echo $fileinfo->getFilename() . " changed at " . $fileinfo->getCTime() . " "; } } ?> The above example will output something similar to: apple.jpg changed at 1240398312 banana.jpg changed at 1238605440 index.php changed at 1240398935 pear.jpg changed at 1237423740 SEE ALSO
DirectoryIterator::getATime, DirectoryIterator::getMTime, filectime(3). PHP Documentation Group DIRECTORYITERATOR.GETCTIME(3)
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