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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Appending time stamp for multiple file Post 302998189 by Don Cragun on Friday 26th of May 2017 09:34:00 PM
Old 05-26-2017
Without knowing what operating system and shell you're using we might be able to make lots of suggestions that can't possibly work in your environment.

Setting a the way you are gives it a value that is the literal string date +%s; not to a value that is the output produced by running that date command. Using the ls command substitution is unnecessary, slows down your script, makes it vulnerable to failure in directories with lots of files or with lots of long filenames, and will fail when given filenames containing IFS characters. Consider replacing your script with:
Code:
a=$(date +%s)
for i in *_001*
do	mv "$i" "$i_$a"
done

to get rid of those problems.
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hook_config_section(3alleg4)					  Allegro manual				      hook_config_section(3alleg4)

NAME
hook_config_section - Hooks a configuration file section with custom handlers. Allegro game programming library. SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h> void hook_config_section(const char *section, int (*intgetter)(const char *name, int def), const char *(*stringgetter)(const char *name, const char *def), void (*stringsetter)(const char *name, const char *value)); DESCRIPTION
Takes control of the specified config file section, so that your hook functions will be used to manipulate it instead of the normal disk file access. If both the getter and setter functions are NULL, a currently present hook will be unhooked. Hooked functions have the highest priority. If a section is hooked, the hook will always be called, so you can also hook a '#' section: even override_config_file() cannot override a hooked section. Example: int decode_encrypted_int(const char *name, int def) { ... } const char *decode_encrypted_string(const char *name, const char *def) { ... } void encode_plaintext_string(const char *name, const char *value) { ... } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { ... /* Make it harder for users to tinker with the high scores. */ hook_config_section("high_scores", decode_encrypted_int, decode_encrypted_string, encode_plaintext_string); ... } END_OF_MAIN() SEE ALSO
config_is_hooked(3alleg4) Allegro version 4.4.2 hook_config_section(3alleg4)
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