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I've written a small Perl script renaming or copying files acording to their the modification time. This may be useful for example to rename photos read from a digital camera, usualy named like 001.IMG to something like wedding-2003-03-04-09:41:00.img, where 2003-03-04-09:41:00 is usually the date/time when the photo was taken (if your camera sets the file dates acordingly).
Another option is just to rename a set of files by adding a sequence number 0, 1, 2, ... to a basename.
Download the actual version (1.4 of 2007/05/21) of the script.
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The programs are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.
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If you find this software useful, please send me a postcard from the place
where you are living:
Dr. Jürgen Vollmer
Am Rennbuckel 21
D-76185 Karlsruhe, Germany
NAME
mv-date - a script to rename or copy files accroding to their modifica-
tion time
SYNOPSIS
perl mv-date [<options>]* file ...
OPTIONS
-A : use the atime of the files
-M : use the mtime of the files (default)
-C : use the ctime of the files
-N : just renumber the files, ignore the date/time, start with 0
-N nr : just renumber the files, start with nr
-D nr : if -N is given, use nr digit (with leading zeros), default 4
-c : copy the files, atime amd mtime are preserved
-m : move the files (default)
-n : do not perform copy/move, show only the resulting file
names (note: -suffix is not added, since the new files
are not created.
-d dir : destination directory, default the directory as given
by the filename. If the directory does not exists, it is
created.
-o : overwrite an exisiting file, default: add a suffix
-p : prefix
-h : help
-v : verbose
DESCRIPTION
Renames (or copies) the files given as arguments. Compute the modifica-
tion time (any other time see options) and renames the files as:
<path>/<prefix->YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS[-<suffix>].<ext>
where YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS is the selected time of the file and path may
be specified by the -d option.
If there is already a file with that name append a suffix: 1, 2,...
<ext> is replaced by its lowercase
EXAMPLE
assume you want to rename the following files with the modification
dates
001.IMG Mar 4 10:40
002.IMG Mar 4 10:41
003.IMG Mar 4 10:41
the command
mv-date -p foo *.IMG
will produce the following files:
foo-2003-03-04-09:40:00.img
foo-2003-03-04-09:41:00.img
foo-2003-03-04-09:41:00-1.img
the command
mv-date -N 1 -p *.IMG
will produce the following files:
foo-0001.img
foo-0002.img
foo-0003.img
AUTHOR
Dr. Juergen Vollmer <juergen@informatik-vollmer.de>
If you find this software useful, I would be glad to receive a postcard
from you, showing the place where you're living.
HOMEPAGE
http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software/mv-date.html
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003 Dr. Juergen Vollmer, Viktoriastrasse 15, D-76133
Karlsruhe, Germany.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
VERSION 1.4 2007/05/21
Revision 1.5 2007/05/21 16:36:55 vollmer added optional number argument to -N added -D nr command line option Revision 1.4 2007/05/09 20:41:16 vollmer added -N Revision 1.3 2003/08/28 16:28:26 vollmer fixed check for no arguments Revision 1.1 2003/08/12 09:51:38 vollmer Initial revision© Copyright 2005 Dr. Jürgen Vollmer (www.informatik-vollmer.de)