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Old 08-08-2011
Bash script to copy timestamps of multiple files
Hi, I have a bunch of media files in a directory that have been converted (from MTS to MOV format), so my directory contains something like this:

clip1.mts
clip1.mov
clip2.mts
clip2.mov

The problem is that the .mov files that have been created have the timestamps of the conversion task, not the original timestamp of the .mts files. So I need to copy the timestamp of each .mts file to the .mov of the same name.

Someone suggested this one-line Bash script to solve a similar problem, using touch:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.mts' -exec touch -r {} {}.mov \;

But the output file is supposed to be clip.mov, not clip.mts.mov, so it doesn't quite work. How can I fix it? I guess this is a simple problem, but I'm new to Bash scripting.

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 08-08-2011
Try:
Code:
for f in *.mts; do
 echo touch -r "$f" "${f%mts}mov"
done

If everything is OK remove echo.
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Krakus
# 3  
Old 08-08-2011
Works great! Thank you. Smilie
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