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When renaming files in terminal, you can use their time stamp. This bash/shell script helps you. It uses `stat` to get the information, formats the time stamp with `date` and renames each file with `mv`.
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rename_file_with_file_date.sh
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# When renaming files in terminal, you can use their time stamp. This bash/shell script helps you.
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# One liner: for f in *.jpg; do D=$(date -r $(stat -f %B $f) +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S); mv -vi "$f" "$D-$f"; done
for datei in *.jpg
do VARIABLE_WITH_FORMATTED_DATE=$(date -r $(stat -f %B $datei) +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)
mv -vi "$datei" "$VARIABLE_WITH_FORMATTED_DATE-$file"
done
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