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Old 08-15-2011
Power newbie -- please help: sed
Hi

I am trying to setup a sed script that will rename all files in a folder to their date and time stamp.

eg:

Code:
 
xxxxx.jpg
xxxxx12.jpg
xxxxx14.jpg

they need to be renamed to
upstairs `date +%Y%m%d`.jpg
They have no metadata, so cannot use exif, will need to use sed.

Thanks in advanceSmilie
Last edited by radoulov; 08-15-2011 at 03:46 AM.. Reason: Code tags.
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Old 08-15-2011
Code:
 
d=`date +%Y%m%d`; for i in *.jpg; do newName=`basename $i .jpg`; echo "mv $i $i$d.jpg"; done

test the above and check the echo output. If everything is ok, then remove the echo part and execute it
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Old 08-15-2011
HI,
Thanks for getting back so quickly -- was at work -- so tried it just now.

I am getting the following error:
Code:
mv 00606E931288(Indoor UP)_1_20110815190759_625.jpg 00606E931288(Indoor UP)_1_20110815190759_625.jpg20110815.jpg
basename: extra operand `.jpg'
Try `basename --help' for more information.
mv 00606E931288(Indoor UP)_1_20110815190828_625.jpg 00606E931288(Indoor UP)_1_20110815190828_625.jpg20110815.jpg
mv new.jpg new.jpg20110815.jpg

I want the time to be the time that the file was created -- I guess this will show the time of executing the script -- am I correct -- if so -- how do we do that?

Thanks
Last edited by Scott; 08-15-2011 at 03:55 PM.. Reason: Code tags
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